FRAMING ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA INSTAGRAM LOMBOK

Abstract

Coronavirus or coronavirus disease-19 (Covid-19) since the beginning of 2020 has become news that fills mass media and social media. Instagram is a social media that is used for Covid-19 news. Instagram accounts @ insidelombok and @instalombok are two accounts that are quite active in providing information about Covid-19 in West Nusa Tenggara. Some media have their own style in writing the news. The purpose of this study is to find out how the two Instagram @insidelombok and @instalombok social media accounts frame (framing) Covid-19 news in West Nusa Tenggara. The framing analysis model used is the Robert N. Entman model. The subjects in this study were Instagram accounts on the island of Lombok namely @insidelombok and @instalombok. The object of this research is the upload of two Instagram accounts @insidelombok @instalombok about Covid-19 news in West Nusa Tenggara. The two accounts are framing the development of the number of positive Covid-19 patients per day by including trusted official sources in each framing of the timeline uploads of the two accounts. The difference in the framing of the news presented by the Instagram account @insidelombok and @instalombok can be seen from the way it is presented in the Instagram account timeline. The Instagram account @insidelombok is consistent with the display's characteristic features in the form of a photo explanation of news uploads consisting of several slides. While the Instagram @instalombok account tends to upload a photo by giving an explanation in the form of news content on the uploaded caption.