Open AccessMeme Sebagai Representasi Kritik dan kebebasan Berpendapat di Ruang Siber
Author(s) -
Prapti Wigati Purwaningrum
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
wanastra/wanastra : jurnal bahasa dan sastra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2579-3438
pISSN - 2086-6151
DOI - 10.31294/w.v12i1.7189
Subject(s) - cyberspace , representation (politics) , social media , meaning (existential) , sociology , critical discourse analysis , social representation , covert , media studies , epistemology , psychology , linguistics , the internet , philosophy , politics , political science , social science , computer science , law , world wide web , ideology
Abstrak - The purposes of this study is to describe what and how memes in social media Instagram as the representation of critics from netizen. The approach of this study is Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough with three dimensions; text, discursive practice, and social practice. The writer chooses meme in @fakartun Instagram account as the data source because meme full of funny picture and simple text, easy to understand, and lead the reader to think twice to find the implied meaning in it. This research is focused on meme in @fakartun Instagram account, especially pictures, text, and caption. The conclusion of this study is the writer found social media as a space for netizen to get and upload many information widely and effectively. Nowadays memes are no longer just pictures and funny words that are entertaining but become a media to express opinions, criticize a policy or an event that is happening. Finally, the findings of this analysis will describe how the patterns of opinion, commenting, and critical thinking of citizens in cyberspace Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Fairclough, memes, Instagram, @fakartun