Open AccessApplication of Critical Thinking on the Social Media (Case Study Comments and Statuses on Facebook about Miss Tourism Competition on West Nias)
Author(s) -
Rebecca Evelyn Laiya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1477/4/042002
Subject(s) - hoax , tourism , critical thinking , competition (biology) , sociology , paragraph , social media , indonesian , epistemology , psychology , media studies , social science , social psychology , political science , law , linguistics , medicine , ecology , pedagogy , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology , biology
Hoax and harsh words are really musrooming on the social media among Indonesian society. Though Indonesian society has been limited by the Act Eletronic Information and Transactions Article 27 paragraph 1-4, but still there are so many hoax and harsh words that appear on the social media. One solution of the problem that was mentioned that critical thinking must be applied on the writing comments and statuses on the social media. The purpose of this study is to find out how the critical thinking applied on the comments and statuses of facebook. The topic is about Miss Tourism Competition on West Nias. This research is a qualitative research using a critial discourse analysis approach. Data is collected from comments and statuses written on Facebook. After collecting the data, it is analyzed using the theory of critical discourse analysis and the theory of critial thinking. The result is many of the respondents who gave comments and statuses on the Facebook about Miss Tourism Competition on West Nias did not applied their critical thinking. It is proved most of the comments and statuses was given consist of many harsh words to undermine Miss Tourism Competition on West Nias because the dress that was wearing by all the participants on that event. Suggestion that can be given by the author is critical thinking education must be carried out especially for young generation, because critical thinking skills are very important for them to analyzed what happen around of their world and the most important one is to avoid hoax and harsh words mushrooming on the social media.