Trends framing News coverage of the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election Campaign in Indonesian Online News Portals

Samsudin, Dafrizal and Aziz, Abdul (2019) Trends framing News coverage of the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election Campaign in Indonesian Online News Portals. In: 2nd International conference on Islam, Media and Communication 2019 (ICIMAC 2019), 11-12 Desember 2019, Faculty of Leadership and Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.

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Abstract

Media plays an important role to select some aspects of certain issues and make them more prominent both in printed media and online media portals news texts. The 2019 Indonesian presidential election contains many controversial issues reported by Indonesian mainstream online media portals. This study aims to investigate the news coverage of the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election campaign, mainly from the tone of Indonesian online news portals such as whether the tone of news is positive, negative, Balanced or neutral. Besides, this paper also highlights the dominant trends framing the 2019 Indonesian presidential election campaign. A qualitative framing analysis of 665 elections stories have been employed from eight Indonesian Online News Portals comprising Republika Online.co.id, Kompas.com, JPNN.com VIVAnews.com, BeiitaSatu.com, SINDOnews.com, Liputan6.com, and Media lndonesia.com during the campaign period from September 13, 2018, until April 13, 2019. The article demonstrates that generally, the news and news title directions of the online media portal was positive, but only the JPNN is dominant in the negative news direction. In addition, the overall directions of online media news regarding Presidential Candidates and Vice Presidential candidates are positive. Not only that, in general, the dominant news frame about the 2019 Indonesian presidential election campaign in online media portals is a moral frame such as in Republika.co.id, SINDOnews.com, Kompas.com, Liputan6.com, Berita Satu, com, JPNN .com, and Media lndonesia.com, but separately VIVAnews.com is also more dominant in the conflict

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: framing, presidential election, online news portals
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: > Ilmu Komunikasi
Depositing User: Mia
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2021 02:54
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2023 02:59
URI: http://repository.uir.ac.id/id/eprint/4636

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