The Reception of Indonesian Lecturers on Hoaxes and Hate Speech When Using Social Media

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10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reception, Social Media, Lecturer, Hoax, Hate speech

Abstract

Internet usage is very popular in Indonesia which reaches 52% of the total population, but the majority of the people use the internet to chat and access social media sites, not access data either downloading or uploading important information on the internet. Social media has two roles, as content producers and at the same time as users. but in fact almost all social media timelines are flooded with information containing hate speech and hoaxes. This study tries to explore the phenomenon of hoaxes and hate speech getting a big moment when social media became very common and developed in the internet age. The massive hoaxes circulating outwit many people to trust and participate in spreading it even though they have high education such as lecturers. For this reason the aim of this study is to analyze the reception of netizens among lecturers in two big cities in Indonesia namely Medan and Bandung city regarding of hoaxes and hate speech on social media using netnography method which requires researchers to retrieve data as a whole through online search and offline search. The results showed that lecturers in Medan City and Bandung City were still trapped in the activities of producing and reproducing hoax and hate speech content through their social media accounts. Although there are also Medan and Bandung lecturers who only post motivations, religious lectures selfie photo and photos of their daily activities. Their reception of news of hoaxes and hate speech or discourses spread by social media is in a dominant position, negotiated and oppositional readers.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Internatioal Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2019)
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