Curriculum of Communication Science in colleges were expected to be able to
accommodate real necessities in industrial world, and at the same time designed to
boost development of Communication Science itself. For the purpose, there were a
number of trends in media industry that should be carefully examined.
There were two aspects that we should heed. The first aspect related to
hardware or technological products of information and technology. Various
technological products that were developing rapidly recently had turned into new
media in information conveyance.
The second aspect related to shifting of structures and mechanisms in media
industry itself, that led to changes as well in operation and working pattern of media
industry. The changes took place due to being prompted by global environmental
factors such as globalization process that had impacted on media industry in
Indonesia.