Between New Virus and News Virus (A Contradictive Situation in Covid-19 Pandemic)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210421.083How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID 19, pandemic, a new virus, infodemic, news virus, the media, reception
- Abstract
The study was aimed to investigate the audience’s reception of hoax news about Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) that spread in Indonesian the media (between April and June 2020) and the news impacts on society when dealing with COVID-19 pandemic. This research employed a descriptive qualitative study using a receptive analysis approach. The results showed that public reception of hoax news related to COVID-19 led to an active, constructive meaning of news encoding-decoding with meaning that tended to be of negotiation to adapt to their situation. In addition, the study also discovered that the tendency of opposition in decoding the news led the participants to reject the hoax news of COVID-19 altogether. Thus, hoax news related to COVID-19 did not significantly affect the audiences’ perceptions, but the news even positively strengthens the audiences’ attitude against the news itself. Indonesian audiences as described in this study are not easily led to the media’s propaganda, but they are academically-capable to respond and filter information about COVID-19 in the media.
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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 - Wildana Wargadinata AU - Iffat Maimunah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/22 TI - Between New Virus and News Virus (A Contradictive Situation in Covid-19 Pandemic) BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 566 EP - 574 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210421.083 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210421.083 ID - Wargadinata2021 ER -