Youth Responses Towards Internet Memes of Covid-19 Protocols
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.050How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Covid-19, East Javanese, internet meme, response, youth
- Abstract
Internet memes as digital items with particular purposes and circulated via internet by many platforms has played important roles in online communication. In the context of Covid-19 pandemic, online communication is important channels that people use to communicate each other. In mitigating the pandemic, socializing the covid-19 protocol through internet memes is a breakthrough. The internet memes discussed here is a series of internet memes on covid-19 protocols, presented in East Javanese language. Therefore, it is important to find out young people’s response towards internet memes of Covid-19 Protocols. This study aims at exploring the responses of young people towards internet memes of Covid-19 protocols that circulated in East Java, Indonesia. This is a qualitative research with cultural studies perspective. The data are collected through google form circulated online among young people, especially university students. The internet memes used as the object of study is presented in the questioner that the respondents have to give comment. There are 142 respondents filling the questioners. The study shows that young people are mostly interested in the internet meme presented. It also shows that most of the youth agree and follow the Covid-19 protocols as campaigned in the memes.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mundi Rahayu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - Youth Responses Towards Internet Memes of Covid-19 Protocols BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 328 EP - 333 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.050 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.050 ID - Rahayu2021 ER -