Jurnal Profetik
Vol 11, No 1 (2018)

TWITTER: Expressing Hate Speech Behind Tweeting

Yudha Wirawanda (Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta)
Tangguh Okta Wibowo (Sekolah Pascasarjana UGM Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Apr 2018

Abstract

This study explores on how Indonesian people use Twitter. Only one hundred and forty (in one tweet) characters are able to create unlimited tweets expressing an agenda, Twitter has a role as canalization of desire that their users cannot devote in offline world. This study will focus on the prosumption practice toward the use of Twitter behind tweeting to spread a variety of opinions, including hate speech, because the characters of cyberspace allow the formation of habitus toward virtual users that they can devote freely a certain emotion in cyberspace. This study critically analyzes the prosumption practices of creating hate speech behind tweeting. This study also discusses on how Twitter's characters are able to express hate speech by the users. The interaction of users to use Twitter in expressing hate speech has played a role on how the users construct the world.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

profetik

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Profetik: Jurnal Komunikasi is a peer-reviewed journal, published biannually by Communication Science Department, State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. It is available online as open access sources and printed. The main focus of the journal is researches in communication studies ...