Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020)

Between New Virus and News Virus (A Contradictive Situation in Covid-19 Pandemic)

Authors
Wildana Wargadinata, Iffat Maimunah
Corresponding Author
Wildana Wargadinata
Available Online 22 April 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210421.083How to use a DOI?
Keywords
COVID 19, pandemic, a new virus, infodemic, news virus, the media, reception
Abstract

The study was aimed to investigate the audience’s reception of hoax news about Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) that spread in Indonesian the media (between April and June 2020) and the news impacts on society when dealing with COVID-19 pandemic. This research employed a descriptive qualitative study using a receptive analysis approach. The results showed that public reception of hoax news related to COVID-19 led to an active, constructive meaning of news encoding-decoding with meaning that tended to be of negotiation to adapt to their situation. In addition, the study also discovered that the tendency of opposition in decoding the news led the participants to reject the hoax news of COVID-19 altogether. Thus, hoax news related to COVID-19 did not significantly affect the audiences’ perceptions, but the news even positively strengthens the audiences’ attitude against the news itself. Indonesian audiences as described in this study are not easily led to the media’s propaganda, but they are academically-capable to respond and filter information about COVID-19 in the media.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
22 April 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-368-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210421.083How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, 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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