Abstract
As the advancing of technology, bullying became online, it moved to social media, which was then called cyberbullying. Instagram is one of social media that contain a lot of cyberbullying, it usually happened to public figure. It became interesting when the public figure in the bully is LGBTQ, namely Dena Rachman (transgender). This study explored how discourse formed the logic of truth which naturalize the perpetrators to commit cyberbullying act without hesitation. This study used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) method and Teun A. van Dijk’s analysis technique and data interpretation. This study found that the logic of truth that became the basis of cyberbullying is already a natural logic and became the perpetrator’s mindset because it has been institutionalized in everyday life through education, religion, social life, and state regulations.
Highlights
Bullying is a negative action that is often aggressive and manipulative, performed by one person or more against another person or group of people for any given period of time, that contained with violence and imbalance of power
People often encounter conflicts caused by misunderstandings on social networking sites (SNS), one of which is in the form of cyberbullying
Aside from being a medium to communicate with others directly, social media becomes a medium for communicating a person's identity
Summary
Bullying is a negative action that is often aggressive and manipulative, performed by one person or more against another person or group of people for any given period of time, that contained with violence and imbalance of power. Social media can make communication between humans become borderless because people can communicate with anyone in any country at any time. According to Graham [1] the presence of communication technologies are basically provide the opportunity for anyone to interact and connect to each other without the constraints of distance and time. Manovich [1] revealed that the concept of interaction in the new media made boundaries of the physical and social interaction begin to blur. Resident of country A can praise or denounce the resident of country B without inhibitions, even if it turns out the resident of country B is a public figure This is where the physical and social boundaries begin to blur. Social media eventually become a new container to the marginalization of the groups or people who are considered incompatible with the existing normative order in society, one of which is LGBTQ
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