Open AccessTWITTER: Expressing Hate Speech Behind Tweeting
Author(s) -
Yudha Wirawanda,
Tangguh Okta Wibowo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
profetik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2549-0168
pISSN - 1979-2522
DOI - 10.14421/pjk.v11i1.1378
Subject(s) - cyberspace , variety (cybernetics) , construct (python library) , habitus , social media , focus (optics) , internet privacy , sociology , media studies , the internet , world wide web , computer science , social science , artificial intelligence , physics , cultural capital , optics , programming language
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.