Konstruksi Makna Aktivitas Jurnalistik Bagi Pelajar Anggota Komunitas Hai School Crew

Hai School Crew (HSC) is a community of high school students whose activities are supervised by Hai Online media. Through this community, the members could participate in editorial activities carried out by the Hai Online editorial staff. This study aimed to determine the motives, experiences, and meanings of journalistic activities for students as community members who carried out journalistic activities through the Hai School Crew community. This study used a qualitative research method with a phenomenological approach conducted on seven members of the Hai School Crew (HSC) community. The results showed the construction process of the meaning of journalistic activities experienced by students of HSC members. Students initially possessed motives that encourage them to participate in the HSC community. Subsequently, the students carried out a variety of journalistic activities that enabled them to gain a variety of experiences regarding journalism. Afterward, students would create routines about the editorial process they went through to make it a habit of doing their work in the editorial activity of Hai Online. These experiences form their specific knowledge about journalism, which would shape the meaning of journalistic activities they carried out through the HSC community. The informants interpret journalistic activities as an activity to find news and then express it in written form according to the facts. The meaning of the activities they experienced in the HSC community is as a means of learning how journalists work every day. This study concludes that by carrying out journalistic activities routinely, the informants obtained motives, experiences, and meanings of journalistic activities so that they could understand their role as participants whose job is to emulate professional journalists. This research suggests HSC members can continue to maintain their existence and continue to actively carry out journalistic activities that are of interest to the youth