Raising Public Awareness on HIV/AIDS Issues: How Do Social Media Play a Role?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200318.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

HIV/AIDS, issues, social media

Abstract

Social media is the most effective communication media for sharing information in industrial revolution 4.0 era. Almost everyone has a smart phone, connected to the internet that can be used to access social media easily anywhere and anytime. However, this research analyzes the issue of HIV/AIDS on social media. It is expected that the issue of HIV/AIDS on social media can help preventing and reducing the infection of HIV/AIDS in reality. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. The study was conducted by taking visual data and literal data of popular social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. The research results show that there are five classification of posts on social media both Facebook and Twitter. On Twitter, they are: government posts (59 posts), news agencies (220 posts), netizen posts (347 posts), netizen share news (81 posts), and others (113 posts). On Facebook, they are: government posts (0 post), news agencies (0 post), netizen posts (0 post), netizen share news (4 post), and others (0 post). From this result, Twitter is more effective to share information related to HIV/AIDS.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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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TY  - CONF
AU  - M Fashihullisan
AU  - Mukodi
AU  - Sugiyono
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Raising Public Awareness on HIV/AIDS Issues: How Do Social Media Play a Role?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education and Social Science Research (ICESRE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 101
EP  - 108
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200318.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200318.019
ID  - Fashihullisan2020
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