gives opinion change on the issue a major advantage. Changes in public opinion can occur when there is a systematicand permanent
change in the way the media, entertainment and news, present the livesand issues of minorities.
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b. The Relevance of Twitter
Twitter as a micro-blogging type of social media which combined with bite-sized blogging, where small amounts of
content or „updates‟ are distributed online and through the mobile phone network.
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Its first relevance is because it offers a relatively easy and simple way of accessing information, including news
contents from news institutions, as a form of integrated data.The reason behind it is because of its relation with its supporting aspect
which presents us with a channelwhich facilitates and constrains our ability to communicate in ways that are fundamentally
different from those found in other type of digital media
.
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Another relevance of Twitter is as it takes the role as a medium of discourse
on a communicative event that happens in a social situation, presents a scenario, involves participants who played different
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Jeremiah J. Garretson, Changing Media, Changing Minds: The Lesbian and Gay Movement, Television, and Public Opinion
– Master Degree Thesis, Nashville: Graduate School of Vanderbilt University, 2009, p. 3.
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Antony Mayfield, What is Social Media?, cited from http:iCrossing.co.ukebooks
, Accessed on June 27, 2014.
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David Crystal, Language and the Internet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 5.
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roles, and determines some actions.
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That is based on the reason of it as a medium of social network which is more sensitive to the
timing of people‟s post than any other social media in a large scale
respectfully to its compact character limit.
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Minavere V. Bardici, Loc. Cit., p. 26.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
C. Data Description
Upon selecting the immense number of tweets from The Huffington Post
‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay Twitter page, the data are collected using teknik kepustakaan
bibliography technique as it is enable researchers to use written resources to gain data.
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The steps on data collection in this research are: The direct attentive action to the Twitter page of The Huffington Post
‟s Gay Voices
HuffPostGay. Each month is observed to acquire the most recent and discussable issues as reflected on its tweets. The acquisition of
twelve tweets from The Huffington Post ‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay
Twitter page as the representation of each of the months of the year 2014 until the first half of the year 2014, the month of June was commenced by using the
twitter search advanced, https:twitter.comsearch-advanced
. Keywords to the monthly hot issues were input to the search engine and eighteen tweets, three
tweets every month, were taken as the table below.
Table 1. Corpus Data No.
Month Issue
Number of Tweets
Corpus Data
1. January 2014
Russia‟s Anti- gay Law
8
a Ian McKellen and
27 Nobel laureates speak out against
Russia‟s anti-gay law.
b OH HELL NO:
Right-wing pundits want
to see
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Subroto, op. cit., p. 42.
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