Research Article
Exploring Hashtag #WadasMelawan on Twitter as A Form of Digital Resistance Against Ecocide
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2339023, author={Regina Caeli Cahaya Tarsisty and Catharina Putri Larasati and Rizki Ifnafiar and Vincent Giovanni and Muhamad Isnaini}, title={Exploring Hashtag \#WadasMelawan on Twitter as A Form of Digital Resistance Against Ecocide }, proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Rural Socio-Economic Transformation: A Transdisciplinary Approach for Promoting Sustainable, Resilience, and Just Rural Transitions in the Era of Climate Crisis, RUSET 2022, 10-11 August 2022, Bogor, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={RUSET}, year={2023}, month={11}, keywords={hashtag virtual ethnography ecocide social media twitter}, doi={10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2339023} }- Regina Caeli Cahaya Tarsisty
Catharina Putri Larasati
Rizki Ifnafiar
Vincent Giovanni
Muhamad Isnaini
Year: 2023
Exploring Hashtag #WadasMelawan on Twitter as A Form of Digital Resistance Against Ecocide
RUSET
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.10-8-2022.2339023
Abstract
A polemic regarding Wadas Village has not been fruitful yet. The villagers of Wadas Village, one of the villages in Bener District, Purworejo Regency, have been voicing the polemic as a form of resistance against the ecocide of Wadas Village. The ecocide related to mining activities of andesite stone as one of the building materials of Bener Dam has raised a lot of protest from various individuals and communities, especially in virtual worlds such as Twitter. One of the most vocal Twitter account that actively voice out their resistance on Twitter by using the hashtag fitur #WadasMelawan is @WadasMelawan. The method applied in this research to analyze tweets is qualitative research with a virtual ethnography approach. The tweets used as the data of this research are limited to tweets dated from March to May 2022 that have the hashtag #WadasMelawan created by the Twitter account @WadasMelawan. The result of analyzing the data shows that a lot of Wadas villagers are against the mining activities of the andesite stone. The villagers are worried about the potential ecocide as it can lead to the loss of their livelihood which is used as the mining site and the higher possibility of erosion. The intransparency from the Government regarding this polemic is the reason why the Wadas villagers finally created the polemic. As for the reason Twitter is chosen is that Twitter is deemed as a platform with the least restrictions.