Pola Komunikasi Suporter Klub Sepak Bola Manchester United di Kota Medan

Abstract

This research is entitled “Communication Patterns of Manchester United Football Club’s Supporters in Medan”. The purpose of this research was to determine internal and external communication patterns, interpersonal and group communication of the fans football club. The theories in this research are communication theory, communication patterns theory, interpersonal communication theory, group communication theory and group achievement theory. This research used qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data collection techniques were carried out by interview, observation and literature review. The informants in this research amounted to six people, three of them are administrators and three others are members of the United Indonesia Medan community. Based on the results of the research, the researcher obtained the results, namely the internal communication patterns of United Indonesia Medan are two-way and multi-directional communication with two types of communication in it, namely interpersonal and group communication. And external communication uses the same communication patterns and types of communication as internal communication.. The things that distinguish between internal and external communication are the nature and flow of communication.