Global Activism in Arab Digital Space: Analysis of User Comments on Russia-Ukraine Conflict News
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https://doi.org/10.37108/ukazh.v1i1.2045Keywords:
Digital activism, User comments, Russia-Ukraine conflictAbstract
The availability of comment columns on social media, it can influence the thoughts that develop in the public sphere. Therefore, it is necessary to study global activism not only from the form of speech acts and their functions, but also the intentions of the speech according to the context in digital space. The global activism studied is contained in speech acts on youtube accounts related to news of the Ukrainian and Russian conflicts with the theory of illocutionary speech acts. This is because the news related to the Russia-Ukraine war is still a hot topic of discussion. This research includes qualitative research, descriptive research design with a qualitative approach. The data is obtained from a Sky News Arabiyah youtube channel with the link https://youtu.be/nkMlxVmmUqY. The data is in the form of speech and comments of social media users on youtube. The data were collected by downloading, listening, and tabulating. The analysis is done by referring to Searle's Illocutionary Acts Theory. The results of this study indicate that digital activism does not originate solely from Middle Eastern countries but encompasses the entire world, making it a global phenomenon in response to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The discourse trend in this study is criticism of Ukraine due to the audio-visual factors of the video and the ideological basis of the speakers who are against Nazism.
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