Stuart Hall’s Reception in Netizens’ Comments on the Close the Door Podcast Episode Featuring Buya Arrazy: An Islamic Communication Perspective

This study aims to analyze netizens’ responses to Buya Arrazy’s statements in Deddy Corbuzier’s Close The Door podcast on his YouTube channel, using Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory and the Ethics of Islamic Communication. The study highlights how the use of social media produces meaning based on each user’s ideological position. This research employs a descriptive qualitative method with thematic analysis, applying a virtual ethnography approach to examine netizens’ comments. The findings show that audiences occupy three reception positions: Dominant, Negotiated, and Oppositional, with the Oppositional position being the most prevalent. Furthermore, the results reveal that some netizens engage in critique following the ethics of Islamic communication, such as Qaulan Baligha, Layyina, Sadida, Karima, and Maisura. Conversely, there are also comments that do not reflect Islamic communication ethics. The novelty of this study lies in the integration of Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory with Islamic communication ethics as an analytical model to understand digital communication, particularly in religious discourse within the public sphere. This research offers an interdisciplinary approach between Western theory and Islamic perspectives. Such integration provides a theoretical contribution to the expansion of digital communication analysis models grounded in Islamic values. This approach remains rarely applied in contemporary Islamic communication studies, making it a valuable reference for understanding the dynamics of reception in public spaces.