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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Russia‟s anti-gay laws in the U.S.
c NBC
Olympics coverage
won‟t ignor
e Russia‟s
anti-gay law.
2. February 2014
Michael Sam of the NFL
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a Meet Michael Sam,
the college football star who could go
on to become the NFL‟s first openly
gay player. b
Michael Sam receives a standing
ovation at Missouri
basketball game.
c Will Michael Sam
save the NFL from its homophobia?
3. March 2014
Transgender Issues
21
a Trans woman
allegedly barred from Selena
tribute: „Nobody wants to see a
male person dress up like a girl‟.
b From homeless to
hopeful: How a trans woman of
color found her path.
c She was never a
boy: A mother‟s beautiful letter
about her trans daughter.
4. April 2014
American Evangelical
Pastor Scott Lively
3
a Anti-gay pastor
Scott Lively talks about LGBT
rights, running for Governor and
Obama.
b Gays use their
bodies „in ways th
ey‟re not supposed to‟
hopeful governor declares.
c Governor hopeful
claims gays use their bodies „in
ways they‟re not supposed to‟
a The unfair reason
why twin Eagle Scouts have same
merit badges but only one of them
will get to stay in
5. May 2014
The Boy Scouts of
America 5
Boy Scouts. b
Major online retailer comes
under fire for helping to fund
anti-gay Boy Scouts.
c New Boy Scouts
president Robert Gates says he
would have allowed gay
adults.
6. June 2014
Marriage Equality
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a After gay marriage
ban is overturned, GOP state
legislator asks why America can‟t be
more like Saudi Arabia.
b LOOK: This kid
lobbied Australia‟s prime minister to
let his moms get married… and he
got a response. c
LISTEN: Hillary Clinton has
awkward exchange over her position
on gay marriage.
The collected corpus data are then taken into identification, accentuation, and annotation of the relevant parts of the tweets on the data
cards by grouping them into six folders. Next step is focusing the research by taking two tweets from each of the months of the first half of the year 2014
until the most recent one to the date of research composing, the month of June, to acquire the general overview of discourse building concept used on its
tweets by utilizing the simple random sampling method in order for the data
sample to have the same chance.
Below is the list of the processed data from each month:
Table 2. Data after Being Processed No.
Month Issue
Tweets
1. January 2014
Russia‟s Anti-gay Law
a Ian McKellen and 27
Nobel laureates speak out against Russia‟s
anti-gay law. b
NBC Olympics coverage won‟t ignore Russia‟s
anti-gay law.
2. February 2014
Michael Sam of the NFL
a Meet Michael Sam, the
college football star who could go on to become
the NFL‟s first openly gay player.
b Will Michael Sam save
the NFL from its homophobia?
3. March 2014
Transgender Issues
a From homeless to
hopeful: How a trans woman of color found
her path. b
Trans woman allegedly barred from Selena
tribute: „Nobody wants to see a male person
dress up like a girl‟.
4. April 2014
American Evangelical
Pastor Scott Lively
a Anti-gay pastor Scott
Lively talks about LGBT rights, running for
Governor and Obama. b
Gays use their bodies „in ways they‟re not
supposed to‟ hopeful governor declares.
5. May 2014
The Boy Scouts of America
a The unfair reason why
twin Eagle Scouts have same merit badges but
only one of them will get to stay in Boy Scouts.
b New Boy Scouts
president Robert Gates says he would have
allowed gay adults.
6. June 2014
Marriage Equality
a LOOK: This kid lobbied
Australia‟s prime minister to let his moms
get married… and he got a response.
b LISTEN: Hillary Clinton
has awkward exchange over her position on gay
marriage.
The data will be analyzed by utilizing the qualitative method to reveal the building tasks of discourse on The Huffington Post
‟s Gay Voices HuffPostGay tweets and the social activities and identities it portrays in
the stance on LGBT issues.
D. Data Analysis
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