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The Representation of Gay on Instagram (Semiotics Analysis of @Alpantuni Account)
Corresponding Author(s) : Muhammad Ardhanie Amrullah
Proceedings Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Undergraduate Conference,
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): Strengthening Youth Potentials for Sustainable Innovation
Abstract
Instagram is often used to resist negative stigma and discrimination for the homosexual because of its characteristics: dispersal, decentralized, and easily used. It encourages the homosexual to convey their ideas broadly, just the same as the straight people as the majority do. One of the examples is the @alpantuni account on Instagram. This account is trying to describe the life of becoming gay as the effect of a public understanding that being gay is a taboo. The account uses comic stripe with satire, Alpantuni as the main character of the comic stripe is a Muslim gay. I argue that this comic becomes the media to resist the public stigma of LGBT. Therefore, this paper will focus on the question of how the gay is represented in the @alpantuni account on Instagram, which performs the resistance against the stigma and discrimination. The paradigm of this research is interpretive with a hermeneutic approach and I use Roland Barthes’s semiotic analysis which divides two stages of interpretation. The stages are denotation and connotation with the myth which is attached to the research object. In the @alpantuni account on Instagram, 11 comic stripe posts could be analyzed. From the analysis, I found that the gays’ fear to express their thoughts and tend to be silent when their thoughts are considered to be erroneous. Those are caused by the inequity, discrimination and violence against the gays, and the majority promote democracy only for their own sake but are dogmatic to the thoughts of the gays. Thus, the story of the comic stripe containing the representation above is criticizing the current social conditions.
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- Azizah, N. (2019). Representasi Homoseksual Muslim dalam Komik Strip Melalui Instagram @alpantuni. Universitas Bakrie.
- Bruffee, K. A. (1986). Social Construction, Language and teh Authority of Knowledge. College English, 48(8), 773–790.
- Croucher, S. M., & Daniel Cronn-Mills. (2019). Understanding Communication Research Methods (Second (ed.)). Routledge.
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- Greenberg, D. F. (1988). The Construction of Homosexuality. The University of Chicago Press.
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References
Azizah, N. (2019). Representasi Homoseksual Muslim dalam Komik Strip Melalui Instagram @alpantuni. Universitas Bakrie.
Bruffee, K. A. (1986). Social Construction, Language and teh Authority of Knowledge. College English, 48(8), 773–790.
Croucher, S. M., & Daniel Cronn-Mills. (2019). Understanding Communication Research Methods (Second (ed.)). Routledge.
Febriani, E. (2020). Fenomena Kemunculan Kelompok Homoseksual dalam Ruang Publik Virtual. Komunikologi: Jurnal Ilmiah Komunikasi, 17(1), 30–38.
Freud, S. (1994). The Social Construction of Gender. Adult Development, 1(1), 37–45.
Gaynor, T. S. (2018). Social Construction and the Criminalization of Identity: State-Sanctioned Oppression and an Unethical Administration. Public Integrity, 1–12.
Greenberg, D. F. (1988). The Construction of Homosexuality. The University of Chicago Press.
Hall, S. (1997). The Work of Representation. In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (pp. 13–74).
Hall, W. J. (2019). Sexual Orientation. In Oxford Research Encylopedia of Social Work (pp. 1–23). National Association of Social Workers Press and Oxford University Press.
Jaya, A., Mamoto, C. J., & Sulhiyah. (2019). Konstruksi Identitas Diri Dalam Komik Ruronin Kenshin: Kajian Analisis Wacana Kritis Michel Foucault. Journal Philosophica, 2(2), 53–62.
Jenkins, H., & Thorburn, D. (2003). Democracy and New Media. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. (2009). Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. SAGE Publications.
Marecek, J., Crawford, M., & Popp, D. (2004). On The Construction Of Gender, Sex, And Sexualities. In The Psychology Of Gender.
Mokhtar, M. F., Sukeri, W. A. E. D. W., & Latiff, Z. A. (2019). Social Media Roles in Spreading LGBT Movements in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Media and Communication, 3(2), 77–82.
Murtiningsih, B. S. E. (2017). Representation of 2004 General Election Campaign in Comics Media: Semiotics studies of Comic Ketopraktoon in the 2004 Election Campaign in Kompas Newspaper. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 8(5), 117–129.
Octavianti, M. (2019). Pemaknaan Audiens Terhadap Pemberitaan Komik Gay Muslim di Indonesia: Studi Resepsi Pemberitaan Akun @Alpantuni di Aljazeera.com dan Nytimes.com pada Generasi Milenial. Universitas Multimedia Nusantara.
Prayoga, D. S. (2020). Teknik Membuat Komik Strip Digital. Jurnal Desain Komunikasi Visual Asia, 4(2), 1–10.
Salim, A. (2020). Fenome Keterbukaan Kelompok Minoritas Dalam Berkomunikasi di Media Sosial (Studi Pada Kelompok Minoritas LGBT di Media Sosial Instagram). Syntax Literate: Jurnal Ilmiah Indonesia, 5(3), 19–31.
Söylemez, A. S. (2010). A Study On How Social Gender Identity Is Constructed in EFL Coursebooks. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal, 9, 747–752.
Tehseem, T., & Bokhari, Z. (2019). Comic Representation of the Socio-Political Issues in Pakistan: A cartoon critical study. Journal of Educational Sciences & Research, 6(2), 37–62.
Wicaksono, A. (2014). Catatan Ringkas Stilistika. Garudhawaca.