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Social media has become a part of social life, social movement and protest like in Indonesia and Hongkong. This research aims to explore the social media role in Indonesia and Hongkong Protest's social movement case. This research used qualitative research and using Q-DAS (Qualitative Data Analysis Software). This research found 1) Social media users in Indonesia and Hongkong used the platform to protest towards the government policies with the nodes referring to actor and resistant contents. 2) There appeared to be a relation between Indonesia and Hongkong. However, in Indonesia's social media, Omnibus Law was more vital than Hongkong with a limit score of 0,5 higher than Hongkong with 0. This research also had limitations 1) the content and relation without knowing the popular word spread in social media; 2) the focus only based on social media data. The researchers recommend using famous words spread in social media and digital media.
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Sutan, A.J., Nurmandi, A., Salahudin (2021). Social Media and Social Movements: Using Social Media on Omnibus Law Job Creation Bill Protest in Indonesia and Anti Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hongkong. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_51
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