Corpus-Based Analysis of Online Hoax Discourse on Transportation Subject Picturing Indonesian Issue

Abstract

This research discussed Indonesian hoax on transportation, spread using chain messages over social media, a major hoax subject. Setting social structure as an element to consider in hoax discourse gave different perspectives on why hoax news took place. Contrasting identified online hoax discourse to corpus-derived prosody could be interpreted using a sociopragmatic approach by Lin and Chung (2016). This research tried to look at how discourse on hoax correlated to real social issues among Indonesian people. Digital forensic was done by tracking discourse used as data from hoax news collection on turnbackhoax.com during 2017-2019. Discourse was later generated into clusters of subject idea of ‘tilang’, ‘jalan tol’, public land transport and infrastructure, ‘kecelakaan pesawat’, ‘lowongan kerja’, ‘China’, insecurity toward government and ‘kecelakaan kapal’. The subject idea was later consulted to Indonesian Web Corpus (IWAC). Through the socio-pragmatic approach, prosody derived by contrasting process portrayed hoax on transportation as a reflection of unsolved current social problems among Indonesian community including distrust toward the government, unawareness on transport safety, law and regulation, economic status, and trend. The finding of this research is recommended to take action toward those problems to eliminate hoax spread in the transportation sector.

Linguistic Errors of Indonesian Air Transportation Hoax

“…So convincing, narration on hoaxes supported by pictures or video looks accurate and impossible to distinguish without rechecking other more reliable sources of information. In a different view, hoax news's existence reflects real social issues in the Indonesian community (Pinem, 2021). Thus, it is possible to mess up real news with fabricated ones by modifying its lexicon.…”

“…The qualitative research utilizes all discourse on air transport issues collected online from turnbackhoax.id, including title, picture/video, and news body from 2017-2019. Transportation, as one of the major subjects of hoaxes, is proven to be a reflection of real social problems in the Indonesian community (Pinem, 2021). Regardless of being part of the academic society of air transport, a population of one of the aerospace schools including students, staff, teachers, and instructors, has the potential to intentionally click the hoax's headline news to read it for various purposes (Pinem & Effendi, 2021).…”

Social Discourse of Fake News in French and Its Digital Social Media Literacy

“…It is also emphasized by several Indonesian scholars (Pinem, 2021;Rahayu & Sensusiyati, 2020;Wijana, 2021), who have researched fake news or hoaxes in the Indonesian context using corpus-based data with forensic linguistic techniques. Based on the explanation of these problems, the question in the research is how the fake news social discourse is produced in French.…”