Indonesia Digital Public Sphere: An Alternative and Counterhegemonic Space for Covid-19

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201219.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Counterhegemonic, Covid-19, Digital, New Media, Public Sphere

Abstract

The outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has created a global health crisis that has had a deep impact on the way we perceive our world and everyday lives. Mass Media is playing an important role in the Covid-19 response and has always constituted the necessary infrastructure for modern public sphere. The public sphere is where citizens communicate about the rule of their society. Digital public sphere has distributed essential information, diverse forms of knowledge and argumentation about facts, problems and possible solutions. The focus of current research was: how are rubric, categorization, and ideology in the construction of social reality about Covid-19 on digital platform media as counterhegemonic space? This is qualitative research and using constructivism paradigm. Through Murray Edelman’s framing analysis method, digital media has recently been thought of as national, media specific, and as part of cultural domain. Digital public sphere improves most people’s ability to form their own opinions, debating issues of collective interest and making their own choices of actions on the basic of knowledge about their society. As counterhegemonic space, digital public sphere encourages people to share their view against hegemony through the use of persuasion while raising awareness.

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© 2020, 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  - Andrine Prima Afneta Arzil
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/21
TI  - Indonesia Digital Public Sphere: An Alternative and Counterhegemonic Space for Covid-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 183
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201219.026
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.026
ID  - Arzil2020
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