Meaning Management Between Lectures and Students in Online Learning During Pandemic

Abstract

Online learning during pandemic times is changing the way we communicate from face-to-face to virtual space. This makes the information conveyed reduced by technical and non-technical matters. So it is essential to understand the interaction of lecturers and students in interacting in a virtual space in forming meaning when the discussion process takes place. The study aims to analyses the coordinated management of meaning in interactions between lecturers and students during online learning in pandemic times. The method used to virtual ethnography to understand the subjective experience of lecturers and students. Informants in this research are three lecturers and three students from Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta (UMY), Communication Science Study. The result is the content level, discussion, and learning output. At the level of speech, acts such as feedback on assignments, reprimands, and compliments. At the relationship level, lecturers as facilitators and escorts strengthen the students' skills and character. This research has contributed to providing perspective on the interpersonal context of communication by using coordinated management meaning perspectives in the online learning process. Through coordinated management meaning, it is used to analyses the problem of miscommunication that occurs in online learning.