Dampak Cyberbulying Bagi Player Game Mobile Legends Di Asrama Mentawai Kota Salatiga

Abstract

Mobile legends merupakan game online yang dimainkan melalui smartphone dan terhubung melalui koneksi internet atau jaringan yang bertujuan sebagai hiburan, tapi kenyataannya game mobile legends dijadikan sebagai tempak untuk meluapkan emosi, dan sering juga mengungkapkan kemarahan dalam bentuk caci maki dan hinaan pada orang lainy yang disebut dengan cyberbulying. Tujuan penelitian yaitu mendeskripsikan bagaimana dampak cyberbulying bagi player mobile legends di asrama mentawai Kota Salatiga, sekaligus menganalisi fenomena tersebut menggunakan teori kekerasan simbolik dari Pierre Bourdieu. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada tanggal 6 Juli 2022 hingga 10 November 2022 di Asrama Mentawai Kota Salatiga. Penelitian ini melibatkan 8 orang mahasiswa, 6 orang mahasiswa Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana dan 2 orang mahasiswa Politeknik Bhakti Semesta Kota Salatiga. Adapun teknik penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu, observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan pemain atau player game mobile legends yang ada di Asrama Mentawai mengalami dampak dari perilaku cyberbullying. Hal ini terbukti dengan lamanya pemain yang di Asrama Mentawi bermain geme mobile legends dan sering kali dalam bermain game mobile legend mengalami perilaku cyberbullying. Perilaku cyberbullying berdampak pada perubahan pola perilaku, sikap dan rasa emosional.

Mobile Legends is an online game that is played via a smartphone and is connected via an internet connection or network that aims as entertainment, but the mobile legends game is used as a place to express emotions and often expresses anger in the form of insults and insults to others called cyberbullying. The purpose of this research is to describe how the impact of cyberbullying on mobile legends players in the Mentawai dormitory in Salatiga City, as well as to analyze this phenomenon using the theory of symbolic violence from Pierre Bourdieu. This type of research uses qualitative research with a descriptive approach. This research was conducted from 6 July 2022 to 10 November 2022 at the Mentawai Dormitory, Salatiga City. This study involved 8 students, 6 Satya Wacana Christian University students, and 2 students from the Bhakti Semesta Polytechnic of Salatiga City. The research techniques used in this study are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study showed that players or mobile legends game players in the Mentawai Dormitory experienced the impact of cyberbullying behavior. This is proven by the length of time that players in the Mentawi Dormitory play mobile legend games and often experience cyberbullying behavior in playing mobile legend games. Cyberbullying behavior has an impact on changes in behavior patterns, attitudes, and emotional feelings.