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Title:
W.J.T. MITCHELL’S MULTIMODALITY ANALYSIS TO REVEAL PHOTO-TEXT MISINFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD IN INDONESIA

Authors:
Anastasia Jessica Adinda Susanti

Volume:4 Issue: 12

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Anastasia Jessica Adinda Susanti
Student of Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Szeged, Hungary

MLA 8
Susanti, Anastasia Jessica Adinda. "W.J.T. MITCHELL’S MULTIMODALITY ANALYSIS TO REVEAL PHOTO-TEXT MISINFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD IN INDONESIA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 4, no. 12, Dec. 2020, pp. 195-205, doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2020.v04i12.001. Accessed Dec. 2020.
APA 6
Susanti, A. (2020, December). W.J.T. MITCHELL’S MULTIMODALITY ANALYSIS TO REVEAL PHOTO-TEXT MISINFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD IN INDONESIA. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 4(12), 195-205. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2020.v04i12.001
Chicago
Susanti, Anastasia Jessica Adinda. "W.J.T. MITCHELL’S MULTIMODALITY ANALYSIS TO REVEAL PHOTO-TEXT MISINFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD IN INDONESIA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 4, no. 12 (December 2020), 195-205. Accessed December, 2020. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2020.v04i12.001.

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Keywords:
W.J.T. Mitchell, Multimodality, Photo-text, Misinformation, Covid-19, Indonesia

Abstract:
This research aims to This research aims to reveal photo-text misinformation during the COVID19/ coronavirus pandemic in Indonesia, by using W.J.T. Mitchell’s multimodality analysis. Massive digital misinformation can lead to serious damages in the real world, such as violence, hatred spreading, and even death. The method of this research is hermeneutic. The empirical object of this research is photo-text misinformation that is circulated in social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia. The author interprets this empirical object from Mitchell’s multimodality analysis perspective. In conclusion, photo-text misinformation is an example of an ‘image/text’ relationship, in which there is a problematic gap between visual representation and text. There are three ‘image/text’ forms of misinformation during COVID-19 in Indonesia: 1) photo and false comment; 2) photo and false text in messenger app; and 3) photo and false inscribed text. To reveal this misinformation, the composite of image and text/ ‘imagetext' should be considered as ‘imagetext’. In ‘image-text’ relationship, the visual representation is nesting in some discourse from economic, politics, to social context.

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