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This study found four aspects, among others: 1). The most widely consumed news during the presidential election campaign in Ambon city political bullying has damaged the social system of unity, brotherhood, and the culture of empathy for Christian Islam. 2). News plays a significant role in constructing public opinion in the city of Ambon 3). Political bullying affects changes in political choices 4). The information used as an argument for political communication is 70% of news on social media. The higher the political bullying communication that is input by the public, the more difficult it is to maintain brotherhood.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran tentang realitas bullying politik di FB, WA dan Youtube. Penelitian bercorak desktiptif kualitiatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data lewat data elektronik di media FB, WA, dan Youtube masyarakat di kota Ambon. Teknik analisis data menggunakan metode tafsir maudhu'i Abu Hayyan. Penelitian ini menemukan empat aspek antara lain: 1). Berita yang paling banyak dikonsumsi selama kampanye pilpres di kota Ambon bullying politik telah merusak system sosial persatuan, persaudaraan, dan budaya empati Islam Kristen. 2). Berita berperan besar dalam mengkosntruksi opini masyarakat di kota Ambon 3). Bullying politik berpengaruh terhadap perubahan pilihan politik 4). Berita yang dijadikan argument komunikasi politik adalah 70% berita di media sosial. Semakin tinggi komunikasi bullying politik yang input oleh public maka, semakin sulit merawat persaudaraan dikalangan masyarakat.Keyword: bullying, politik, etnografi, medsos.

This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoretical perspectives that are relevant for analyzing mobile media practices and discuss the ethical implications of these perspectives. Our purpose is twofold: we want to develop a theoretical framework for critically approaching mobile media practices, and we want to contribute to discussions concerning well-being in a time marked by mediatization and digitalization. In this pursuit, we combine theory from social psychology about how people behave at traumatic scenes with discussions about witnessing in and through media, as developed in media and communication studies. Both perspectives offer various implications for normative inquiry, and in our discussion, we argue that mobile bystanders must be considered simultaneously as transgressors of social norms and as emphatic witnesses behaving in accordance with the digital media age. The article ends with a discussion regarding the implications for further research.

Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and researchWritten many of the best known authors in the fieldInclude

Contact tracing apps have magnified the potential usefulness of mobile media and communication technologies for responding to disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Their efficacy and ethical debates have become the focus of recent studies in the Global North. Reasons for using contact tracing apps among users with disability living in the Global South, however, seem to be understudied. Through cases from Indonesia and Vietnam, this study found that nationalistic values were among the reasons for using contact tracing apps as reflected in the users' faith in the state and inclination to support its collective objective to control the pandemic. The users believed the state would be accountable in managing the personal and mobility data the contact tracing apps collected. Using contact tracing apps represented the users' sense of capabilities to individually partake in the existing efforts to control the pandemic.