Framing of COVID-19 in German and Indonesian News
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.132How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- discourse analysis, news framing, online news, COVID-19
- Abstract
News discourse concerning COVID-19 is currently a trending topic in the world since it has affected world economic sector. Moreover this pandemic that has taken place since March 2020 has become a lively headline for discussion because of the massive transmission of the virus with an increasing number of infected people every day. This outbreak caused. The mass media from each country has a various way of producing news about COVID-19. It will be differently interpreted based on the diverse perspectives. News media plays an active role on framing COVID-19 issues. Since the news production is cultural and political based, it will be interested to compare the news framing of 2 countries with different cultural and political background. Therefore this research aims to compare how the German and Indonesian online media on framing news themed COVID-19. The data are related news from selected by related keywords through search engine. The framing theory from Pan and Kosicki (1993) is adopted to analyse the data. The findings reveal that German media frames COVID-19 as a new health problem that must be solved scientifically. Meanwhile Indonesian media frames this virus as a new financial problem.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ajeng D. Kartika AU - dan Tri E. Lestari PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/03 TI - Framing of COVID-19 in German and Indonesian News BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 797 EP - 804 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.132 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.132 ID - Kartika2020 ER -