Symbolic Interaction in Reading Hoaxes About Covid-19 Shared on Social Media
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220408.080How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- social media; hoaxes; Covid-19; semiotics; symbolic interaction
- Abstract
Digital media (internet) has changed human behaviour in accessing information. Digital media (smartphone, tablet dan Notebook) help people to get information about current issues within a relatively short time. The development of information technology nowadays making internet users publishers, besides receive information, also create their information (news), giving comments and spreading it. The users’ freedom in spreading such information may cause a disturbance in society. The major issue is how internet users can distinguish hoax and real information. This paper aims to explore the dissemination of the latest news on social media. The data was sourced from texts in social media and results of online questionnaires. The approach used in this research was semiotics. The research findings showed that the internet is a gateway to information and the most used media to access information is social media. Social media becomes a medium in the dissemination of hoaxes and the most dominant hoaxes found there is related to Covid 19. Reading hoaxes may produce the meaning of linguistic messages, informational messages that can be understood literally and connotative messages, symbolic interaction, which produce universal meaning on the fake news in society.
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Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Burhanuddin Arafah AU - Muhammad Hasyim PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/27 TI - Symbolic Interaction in Reading Hoaxes About Covid-19 Shared on Social Media BT - Proceedings of the 9th Asbam International Conference (Archeology, History, & Culture In The Nature of Malay) (ASBAM 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 580 EP - 584 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220408.080 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220408.080 ID - Arafah2022 ER -