Fake News (Hoax) and Paranoid Frame of Min of Social Media User

Keywords

Media Sosial, Hoax, Paranoid Frame Of Mind

Abstract

The presence of smart devices (Smartphones) is currently considered an answer to that desire. This device is able to make social media today capable of being accessed anytime, anywhere and by anyone who seems to be difficult to be released from various activities of society today. Even medsos considered as a channel in search for information or news as desired. Not infrequently the speed and ease in accessing news through social media makes a netizen more responsive and sensitive to things around it even though it is fake news (hoax). Even the Indonesian Telematics Society (MASTEL) noted in February 2017, the most widely accepted hoax distribution through social media reached 92.4 percent. Social media here include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path, Line, WhatsApp, and Telegram. The high confidence in the truth of the contents of the hoax news raises a paranoid mentality among the masses, which makes the people in the Post Truth Era considered an era where opinions and politics are based more on emotions and beliefs than on objective facts. And puts social users into echo chamber phenomena that make people communicate only with the like, as well as feel paranoid to those who disagree with it. Without any filtering in response to medsos news then paranoid mental will be very strong sticking in active users of social media.

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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  - Jokhanan Kristiyono
AU  - Otoviani Rosalia Jayanti
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Fake News (Hoax) and Paranoid Frame of Min of Social Media User
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 41
EP  - 44
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902366
ID  - Kristiyono2017/11
ER  -