Lentera: Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah dan Komunikasi
VOL 9, No.01 (2025): LENTERA

K-drama Binge Watching among College Students: Motives, Patterns and Implications

Aunul, Sofia (Unknown)
Handoko, Daniel (Unknown)
Riswandi, Riswandi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Jun 2025

Abstract

The binge-watching phenomenon has become a trend when one of the online streaming television platforms, Netflix, offers a variety of series genres. The phenomenon of binge-watching has become a common practice among spectators and students are one of them and binge-watching activities are part of student activities in their daily lives. This study aims to describe the motives, patterns and implications of binge-watching through descriptive qualitative approach using interview in obtaining primary data with 20 college students as informants. The results of the study found that there are (1) the motivation of students to binge-watch is to spend time, entertain, escape, and relax (2) the implications of watching marathons are in the form of physiological and social implications.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

lentera

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Social Sciences

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Lentera: Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah dan Komunikasi [p-ISSN: 2549-7391, e-ISSN: 2549-578X] is a scholarly periodical journal published by the Faculty of Ushuluddin, Adab, dan Dakwah, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. This scholarly periodical specialized in the study of dakwah and ...