Abstract
The study was aimed to investigate the audience's reception of hoax news about Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) that spread in Indonesian the media (between April and June 2020) and the news impacts on society when dealing with COVID-19 pandemic. This research employed a descriptive qualitative study using a receptive analysis approach. The results showed that public reception of hoax news related to COVID-19 led to an active, constructive meaning of news encoding-decoding with meaning that tended to be of negotiation to adapt to their situation. In addition, the study also discovered that the tendency of opposition in decoding the news led the participants to reject the hoax news of COVID-19 altogether. Thus, hoax news related to COVID-19 did not significantly affect the audiences’ perceptions, but the news even positively strengthens the audiences’ attitude against the news itself. Indonesian audiences as described in this study are not easily led to the media’s propaganda, but they are academically-capable to respond and filter information about COVID-19 in the media.
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