The Descriptive Analysis of Hoax Spread through Social Media in Indonesia Media Perspective

Oktavianus Klau Lekik, Sandryones Palinggi, Ikma Citra Ranteallo

2019

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a widespread distribution of hoaxes or fake news in Indonesia. The event of spreading fake news is very disturbing to the wider community because many parties feel disadvantaged over it. Along with the development of technological advancements, people are getting easier to get any information from various social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Whatsapp, so it is also easier for those who are not responsible for spreading hoaxes. Henceforth, this study the author focuses on analyzing the spread of hoaxes through social media in Indonesia, with the aim to be achieved by the author to find out ways in which social media users can spread hoaxes to provoke the public. And, it aims to educate the public to be smart and wise in consuming information that is spread on social media. Using the review literature method is descriptive-analytical. Especially, analytical descriptive research can be used to analyze data and facts that occur about the spread of hoaxes that are widely spread through social media. The results and conclusions of this study that the spread of hoaxes to provoke the public is very easily spread using information technology, and the internet through social media. This must be addressed properly by social media users to be smarter, and wiser, by using selective reasoning to verify all news or information that is widespread in social media, by using understanding and education of media literacy, information literacy and technological literacy that basically as a source of truth.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lekik O., Palinggi S. and Ranteallo I. (2019). The Descriptive Analysis of Hoax Spread through Social Media in Indonesia Media Perspective.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI, ISBN 978-989-758-461-9, pages 276-286. DOI: 10.5220/0009441402760286

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoaci19,
author={Oktavianus Klau Lekik and Sandryones Palinggi and Ikma Citra Ranteallo},
title={The Descriptive Analysis of Hoax Spread through Social Media in Indonesia Media Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,},
year={2019},
pages={276-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009441402760286},
isbn={978-989-758-461-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,
TI - The Descriptive Analysis of Hoax Spread through Social Media in Indonesia Media Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-461-9
AU - Lekik O.
AU - Palinggi S.
AU - Ranteallo I.
PY - 2019
SP - 276
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0009441402760286