Internet Memes and Indonesian Online Anti-Terrorism Movement

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.47How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Internet Meme, Terrorism, Online, Anti-Terrorism Movement, Semiotics, Indonesia.

Abstract

Online media have also contributed to the movement of anti-terrorism in Indonesia like the one done by internet memes. After the terrorist attack in M.H. Thamrin street, Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on 14 January 2016, a number of internet memes went viral in social media and the internet in responding to the terrorist attack. This paper addresses this topic by exploring, investigating, analyzing, and explaining the phenomena of internet memes related to the terrorist attack. Particularly, the analysis focuses on the variety and the contents of the internet memes as the response and messages of the internet and social media users related to Sarinah bombing. This interdisciplinary study is a qualitative-descriptive research that involves the study of language-literary studies and terrorism studies. The memes are analyzed by using Semiotics theory of Umberto Eco and the concept of terrorism studies. Finally, these kinds of memes are the signs of voices of some Indonesian people through online communication for fighting terrorism that can also be called as part of the sign of Indonesian online movement of anti-terrorism in social media and the internet.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Maria Ulfa
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TI  - Internet Memes and Indonesian Online Anti-Terrorism Movement
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 179
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SN  - 2352-5398
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