Tradition and Modernity of Humanity
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): January

Empathy Gap in Social Media Comments for Sexual Harassment Victim

Khairunnisya Lubis (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Indah Chairun Nisa (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Pidiatun Dinia Dalimunthe (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Alemina Br. Perangin-angin (Universitas Sumatera Utara)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2022

Abstract

Indonesian Twitter users who filed a complaint about sexual harassment were studied to see if there was an empathy gap among their tweet responses. The author uses a content analysis method and observes a sample of empathy gap experiences to notice and study empathy gap behaviour in Twitter toward sexual harassment victims. In the research that has been done, the comments tweet as amount 3733 tweets and chosen 60 of them randomly to know-how is the empathy gap with sexual harassment cases. It is concluded that bullies have aggressive and intimidating characteristics. On message production by the bully, actors are supposed to produce messages in expressive, conventional, and rhetorical ways, including negative empathy characteristics. So on the other hand, the research that has been done concludes that people who act as victims have passive and defensive elements. On message reception by the communicant (victim), the victim placed the position of receiving the message in a dominant, negotiating, and oppositional position.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

tmh

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Tradition and Modernity of Humanity based at Lembaga Penelitian Universitas Sumatera Utara in Medan, TALENTA Publisher as a publisher and publishing articles in both English and Indonesia, the journal provides a space for innovative theoretical as well as empirical contributions to issues that ...