Visualizing Violence: The Articulation of Papuan Political Resistance on Social Media

DOI

10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Visual Violence, Papua, Political resistance, Facebook

Abstract

This paper examines how Papuans use Facebook to resist Indonesian hegemony, express political dissent. In particular, it aims to explore the extent to which Papuans document the violence and human rights abuse they have experienced on Orang Papua Facebook group indicting the Indonesian state’s culture of terror as well as explore how members of Orang Papua group use of visual images to express their political resistance by raising international awareness of human rights abuses in Papua. Multimodal discourse analysis is chosen as the method. This method offers a tool to collect and analyse data that is appropriate to study texts in social media. This paper concludes that members of Orang Papua group have developed the narratives of violence and occupation that coexist with narratives of political resistance. Image-making act can itself be a political act as images can implicitly diffuse political arguments. The use of visual images of violence are political but they are also aimed at articulating human rights violations. As members of this group become increasingly adept at using social media to get their story out, they use stories of human rights violation to attract more international attention.

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© 2018, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuyun Surya
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DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Visualizing Violence: The Articulation of Papuan Political Resistance on Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs (IcoCSPA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.18
DO  - 10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.18
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