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Progressive view on social justice: Netizen opinions about social justice warrior

Psikohumaniora: Jurnal Penelitian Psikologi

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Title Progressive view on social justice: Netizen opinions about social justice warrior
 
Creator Hartanto, Hartanto
Subandi, Subandi
Pavlova, Olga
 
Subject Social Justice Warrior; SJW; sentiment analysis; content analysis
 
Description Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term for individuals who fight for equality, environment, and gender. Because their progressive morals radically differ from the predominant values, the so-called social justice warriors spark controversies. This study aimed to describe netizens’ opinions about SJW and describe the dynamics of conflict or support in more detail. Text mining and opinion coding were used to elicit research data. The opinions that we gathered were analyzed in 2 stages: sentiment analysis and content analysis. The results of sentiment analysis are negative (445), neutral (86), and positive (90). Content analysis of the negative opinions showed the characteristics of sarcastic, rude, critical, and contemptuous (mocking/disrespecting). The style of positive sentiments (comments congruent with the phenomena) is divided into supportive, empathic, and motivational opinions. Negative opinions are more dominant because of netizens’ self-acceptance, the effects of informal social control in cyberspace, SJW’s presumed social non-compliance, and doubts of objectivity. Positive opinions can be explained by criticism of social contract theory, namely the demand to be more supportive of minority groups, sensitivity, and empathy (the ability to feel other groups' social conditions and environmental conditions). 
 
Publisher The Faculty of Psychology and Health
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2020-05-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Qualitative with text mining
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/Psikohumaniora/article/view/5250
10.21580/pjpp.v5i1.5250
 
Source Psikohumaniora: Jurnal Penelitian Psikologi; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 107-120
2527-7456
2502-9363
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/Psikohumaniora/article/view/5250/2931
 
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