Online Media and Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis About Hoax News

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Online media, Politics, Critical discourse analysis, Hoax

Abstract

This research is an analysis of critical discourse from Viral news about proof of hoax regarding the founding of seven containers of punched ballots at Tanjung Priok in 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election. The emergence of this hoax or fake news seem to have led the public that there is an attempt to win the election by the incumbent. This hoax suddenly became the hottest news on a national issue, but researchers only took the data from Kompas.com and Viva.co.id, because these two media have a large number of readers. The hoax discourse analysis that has been spread out was examined in Microstructural, Mesostructural and Macrostructural aspects. This research was carried out by using a qualitative research method with critical analysis developed by Norman Fairclough. This research focused on general principles that underlie the basic meaning of social symptoms in society. The result showed that Kompas.com and Viva.co.id used the selection of diction, the broad sentences showing the cause and effect, and direct quotations from the speakers to produce news discourse. The way of Kompas.com and Viva.co.id in producing the news is also considered to be consistent with its mission in producing multimedia products that is independent and free from all compulsion. The motivation that indicated in the production of the news is the readers were led to provide positive impression for Kompas.com and Viva.co.id as the active and popular media that always express the justice.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Noni Marlianingsih
AU  - Yumna Rasyid
AU  - Ninuk Lusyantie
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Online Media and Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis About Hoax News
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 156
EP  - 161
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.030
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.030
ID  - Marlianingsih2020
ER  -