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Network Society, Fake News, and a Hazard in the Post-Truth Era The Case of WhatsApp and Facebook’s Restriction by Indonesian Government in May 2019

Authors
Vera V. Syamsi1, *
1English Language Education Department, Faculty of Education, Sampoerna University, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: vera.syamsi@sampoernauniversity.ac.id
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Vera V. Syamsi
Available Online 29 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_35How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Network Society; Fake News; Post Truth; Social Media; Politics
Abstract

Network society has provided bigger opportunity for people to get connected globally and gain a lot of advantages in many aspects of life, such as education, business, etc. However, with the rise of post truth era, marked by huge prevalence and dissemination of fake news, what was once considered as an empowerment tool has eventually posed serious threat to a country’s peace and harmony. Using the concept of power/knowledge from Foucault, this paper highlights the impact of post truth era to the network society by analyzing the act of government of Republic of Indonesia who restricted some services to two communication platforms, namely WhatsApp and Facebook during a mass protest in May 2019. The finding shows that as the result of the tensions between government and a group of people over occupying the virtual space to gain influence, ironically, network society needs to be curbed to some extent.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Stream (AHS-APRISH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 May 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_35
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_35How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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