Abstract

The study aims to identify the ways to produce text production process by Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN, or State Islamic University) students in Padang on Facebook. Documentations, observations, and in depth-interviews were used to collect data. There were 1,214 discourses found on group and personal accounts of 27 informants, and 400 discourses were taken as data of the research. The analysis was conducted by following Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, (CDA), with the Critical Linguistics approach. The research findings show that the text production process by UIN students on Facebook were done in three ways, namely producing their own text, spreading other people’s texts that are shared from the site, and producing text as a result of consumption of other texts. Producing text itself is a way of producing text by creating its own status as a form of expression of thoughts, feelings, and experiences, without referring to other texts or texts that have been published on other walls. The form of production by spreading text from other website is the most common form of text production. Production status is a form of the author’s reaction to the text he or she understood.

Highlights

  • The existence of Facebook as a social media connecting people they do not meet face to face in the real world is undeniable

  • The text is produced as an expression of thoughts, feelings, and experiences, without reference to other texts or texts that have been published on other Facebook walls

  • As a form of discourse practice, the process of producing text on Facebook is categorized in three techniques, namely producing writer’s own text, distributing other people’s text that is shared from websites, and producing text as a result of interpreting other texts

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Introduction

The existence of Facebook as a social media connecting people they do not meet face to face in the real world is undeniable. Facebook has different features from other social media (Arnaboldi et al, 2013; Bachrach et al, 2012; Celli & Polonio, 2013; Golbeck et al, 2011; Greenwood et al, 2016; Krause et al, 2014; Müller & Thiesing, 2011; Obaidullah & Rahman, 2018; Tosun, 2012) These features contained in Facebook include home, profile, wall, friends, inbox (message), newsfeed, comment, etc. The profile here provides general information about gender, hometown, relationship status, political views, contact information about email, current address, Yahoo, website, educational information and occupation about college, company, position and personal information about activities, interests, favorite music, favorite TV shows, favorite films, favorite books, favorite quotes, and ‘about me’ (himself/herself/group) In this profile page, there is a feature called wall. The inbox is a feature to view private messages sent by Facebook friends that can only be read by the Facebook account of the sender and receiver

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