Pada presentasi kali ini, kami mempresentasikan hasil penelitian kami seputar perubahan tingkah laku penulisan kolaboratif kelompok belajar mahasiswa semenjak kemunculan aplikasi online Google Docs. By Kurnia Latif Maulani, Syahdyah Amna, dan Yohana Parida.

1. HOW
CHANGE YOUR COLLABORATIVE
WRI TI NG BEHAVIOUR
A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH
Kurnia Latif | Syahdyah Amna | Yohana Parida

2. bit.ly/GDocsKu

3. After the rise of Google Docs
students' behaviour in study group
outside class is starting to shift.
BACKGROUNDS
A study by Zhou, Simpson, and Domizi in 2012 shows that
Google Docs has the potential to change collaborative
writing activity outside class.
"I am here, well just not literally!"
"I'm sorry, I can't write right now. I'll be online at 9pm, ok?"
"It's okay, we don't have to meet. We'll finish this in Google Docs."

4. THE AIM
Of the research
To see the relationships between
members in group works
To see how collaborative writing and
discussion in the study group goes
To see whether Google Docs can replace
members' presence in study groups
even if they don't meet face to face.

5. GOOGLE DOCUMENTS
-or you might know it as Google Docs, is a web-based product from
Microsoft Word that provides platform for online collaborative
writing.
Preview :

6. CO-PRESENCE THEORY
DIGITAL FRAMEWORK
"Accessible, available, and present to each other" (Goffman, 1963)
Refers to how people present themselves "real" through
a medium of communication even when the person
is not physically there.

7. MULTIPLICITY OPENNESS
NON-DIGITAL
CENTRICNESS
E T H N O G R A P H Y
P R I N C I P L E S
We focus on the human interaction
within and with digital spaces
instead of the object itself.
Through our open mindedness, we
can find something new from this
research.
We use various methods in
conducting this study such as: FGD,
interview, and online observation.

8. REFLEXIVITY UNORTHODOX
E T H N O G R A P H Y
P R I N C I P L E S
We use unorthodox methods in
which is we observe the participant
interaction on Google Docs itself.
This research is based on our daily life
as a student who use Google Docs.

9. P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L
T H E O R I E S
This research tries to explore the
behavioral change phenomena of
collaborative writing in college study
groups ever since the existence of
online-based app Google Docs.
P R A C T I C E S
There has been a set of behavioral
change in the practices of collaborative
writing where now the students doesn't
always have to meet in person.

10. RELATIONSHIP
NETWORKED
INDIVIDUALISM
IN 'SOCIAL
WORLD'
CONVERSION
IN 'THINGS'
T H E D O M I N A N T
P R I N C I P L E S
Google Docs function transition when
it is inherent in everyday life.
A network formed between group
members even though they do not
discuss/meet face-to-face on a regular
basis.
A co-presence created with Google Docs
as a face-to-face substitute medium
in a study group.

11. Undergraduate student of Communication Studies
University of Indonesia
Year 2016
POPULATION
Three study groups
SAMPLE
SAMPLE GATHERING TECHNIQUE
Non-random sampling

12. We gather informations with open-ended discussion and
we also observe the group's offline interaction.
FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION
We observes the group's online interactions
in Google Docs.
ONLINE OBSERVATION
INTERVIEW
M E T H O D S

13. We observes the group's online interactions in Google Docs.

14. Reasons to use Google Docs:
Easy, practical and accessible, high mobility, different lecture times and far away homes.
OUR FINDINGS
4 of 11 participants preferred
face-to-face discussions
7 of 11 participants preferred
online discussions
through Google Docs
Item 2
63.6%
Item 1
36.4%

15. INTERESTING
FINDINGS
More communication is done via Line,
rather than utilizing comment features
on Google docs
Sometimes groups gather offline while
accessing Google Docs
Mostly accessing Google Docs
on laptops and/or via web
Using Google Docs for working on
proposals and/or papers

16. Anya Wisesa
Communication, 2016
Siti Aliya
Communication, 2016
WHAT THEY SAY...
"Gue pribadi sangat sangat sangat bersyukur banget
dengan adanya Google Docs. Karena praktis dan efektif.
Gue lebih suka ngumpul online sih daripada offline."
“Gue akui, Google Docs membantu gue banget terutama di
tugas-tugas kayak proposal, karena waktu dan kegiatan
orang yang berbeda-beda. Tapi, gue prefer kumpul offline
karena ga semua hal bisa dibahas melalui tulisan,
suka ada miscomm.”

17. As a facilitator, Google Docs considered able to answer
and help the needs of group discussions because
Google Docs are easy, practical and accessible.
The existence of Google Docs can replace the presence
of people who are constrained by distance and time.
CONCLUSION

18. T H A N K Y O U

19. N O W I T ' S T I M E F O R Y O U T O T R Y !
A R E Y O U R E A D Y ?