Twitter has become a tool for people to trigger a social change, like what is happening right now during COVID-19 outbreaks. Most people are using social media platforms to express their perspectives. For the first time, this research aimed to analyze the pattern of a social movement that happened during COVID-19 Outbreaks by analyzing the Twitter dataset contains 23,476 tweets worldwide with the #COVID19 hashtag which was obtained from 02 March to 09 April 2020. Social Network Analysis tools are used to understand the pattern of movement. This research concluded that if the Government and Mainstream Media Twitter account triggered the conversation in the social media platform, followed by the activists and celebrities who engage in conversation between their followers, an ordinary person spread the point of view of the Government and Mainstream Media across their conversation network. The COVID-19 hashtag successfully engaged 10 protest clusters, which pushed the people to fight against COVID-19 in their countries, mostly targeting the government-related account. The digital social movement pattern is relatively different from the traditional social movement, even it has the same steps, which emerge, coalesce, bureaucratise, and the movement itself, but it takes place in the Digital Public Sphere without any social or political boundaries. The digital social movement forced the government to implement a better policy to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic, including to close the national border to prevent unnecessary effects of International Migration.
Indonesia is one of the destinations countries for digital nomads in South East Asia. Digital Nomad can be described by the person who combining work and leisure activities, without geographical border. The digital nomad lifestyle is becoming trends after an American tourist, Kristen Gray becoming viral on the Twitter Platform, she promoting Bali as a heaven for the digital nomad because of the low cost of living and cultural openness by selling eBook and open consultation services for the people who live in the America and European continents, but then she deported by the Indonesian Immigration Authorities, charged with the misuse of visas (she was used tourism visa for business purposes). Then, the research question arises, Are there potential gentrification effects of digital nomad lifestyle to the local people? And what the government should do to tackle this issue? This research is conducted by analyzing tweets using #kristengray and #digitalnomad hashtag, obtained from 12 January to 12 March 2021. The results are more than 49 percent of users, which dominated by the foreigner is defending Kristen Gray, and forcing the Indonesian Government to open Bali as digital nomad living places, but 51 percent of users, who dominated by Indonesian is refusing what the Kristen Gray doing, by arguing if Bali is purely just for tourism places. The results are the gentrification potentially happening between the digital nomad and local people, because of the difference in economic level, culture and value. Then, the government should consider making a policy to minimize the effects of gentrification resulted in digital nomad activities, suggested opening special visas with the restriction and tax policy for the digital nomad.
International Migration can be described as the movement of people from one country to another county. The International Migration is one of the dynamic historical events, which was first legally regulated through the Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire, signed on the 09 March 1857, which give the people who under the religious prosecuted legal permit to enter Turkey territory. Since then, the mass movement of the people between people becoming very common, especially after World War I, and World War II, when millions of people are moving from one region to another because of the displacement and violence. By utilizing Mixed Migration Center Dataset in 2019, which interviewed 9754 respondents, and the Mexican Government data on Migration in the year 2016, the main pattern of migration and motives are tracked and analyzed. It can be concluded, if the pattern of the migration is from East Africa to North Africa, East Africa to North Africa, East Africa to Southern Africa, East Africa to Europe, the Middle East to Europe, the Middle East to southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand), Bangladesh/Myanmar to Malaysia, and from South America to North America. The motives are economics, Violence and General Security, and Lack of Rights. Still, International Migrants protection becoming a big challenge for many destination countries. From the analysis, can be concluded if the challenges in International Migrants Protection are because of the difference in terms, not all of the destination countries ratified the 1951 Convention about refugees and 1967 protocol as the legal basis and cultural and political context which make society in the destination countries refusing the International MigrantsInternational Migration can be described as the movement of people from one country to another county. The International Migration is one of the dynamic historical events, which was first legally regulated through the Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire, signed on the 09 March 1857, which give the people who under the religious prosecuted legal permit to enter Turkey territory. Since then, the mass movement of the people between people becoming very common, especially after World War I, and World War II, when millions of people are moving from one region to another because of the displacement and violence. By utilizing Mixed Migration Center Dataset in 2019, which interviewed 9754 respondents, and the Mexican Government data on Migration in the year 2016, the main pattern of migration and motives are tracked and analyzed. It can be concluded, if the pattern of the migration is from East Africa to North Africa, East Africa to North Africa, East Africa to Southern Africa, East Africa to Europe, the Middle East to Europe, the Middle East to southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand), Bangladesh/Myanmar to Malaysia, and from South America to North America. The motives are economics, Violence and General Security, and Lack of Rights. Still, International Migrants protection becoming a big challenge for many destination countries. From the analysis, can be concluded if the challenges in International Migrants Protection are because of the difference in terms, not all of the destination countries ratified the 1951 Convention about refugees and 1967 protocol as the legal basis and cultural and political context which make society in the destination countries refusing the International Migrants
The National positivity rates reached 14,1 percent in September 2020. More than 4000 cases were confirmed in a day, pushing the government to implement a strict policy that potentially creates pros and cons and may trigger social movement in the affected society. In the theoretical framework, the social movement started in four main stages: emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline. The polarization of the movement is usually started by the grassroots actors towards a common interest. This research aimed to analyze the social movement's pattern and characteristics in the digital sphere by using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. It particularly seeks to understand the conversation network and involved actors by analyzing the Twitter dataset containing 36,929 tweets, with "COVID19Indonesia," "Inpres" and "Pemerintah" words, obtained from July to September 2020. The RStudio Tools used to conduct sentiment analysis to gather people's responses to the COVID-19 related policy, and Gephi Mapping Software to identify the conversation pattern between related actors. The research findings are that government-related accounts can be identified as a conversation starter. A key-person like @Fadlizon can be identified as an influencer. The mainstream media can be identified as active engagement, while ordinary people can be identified as the network builder. The conversation networks, which the government and mainstream media led, successfully triggered a social movement to support a positive public opinion about the Government Policy to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic. The sentiment analysis concluded that 65 percent responded positively, 18 percent neutral, and only 10 percent responded negatively to the government policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show the opposite aspects compared to the social movement theory. Firstly, the key actors and movement polar are dominated by the government-related and mainstream mass media to support the government policy itself, not from the grassroots actors. Secondly, Involved actors are borderless, who came from many different backgrounds and separate into a smaller conversation network to support common goals. However, the main social movement pattern is still relevant to the main stage. It started with emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization and ended with a decline stage. The new phenomenon discovered is that the digital social movement is coming from the people against the government policy or the government to influence public opinion.
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