Abstract
Protests in Hong Kong occurred frequently for years. In June 2019, media had shifted focus towards Hong Kong again as a series of Hong Kong Protests took place with mass street gatherings regarding the amendment of a bill. Online media were used to report news regarding this social unrest. This study aims to find out how the Hong Kong Protestors were represented in the news reports from China and Hong Kong respectively. In order to answer the research questions formulated in this study, activation of social actor as a branch of role allocation was selected from the framework by van Leeuwen (2008) to aid in understanding activation of social actors according toand the framework to study Hong Kong Protestors as social actors in the Hong Kong protests series that happened in 2019. The study collected over 80 news reports from China Daily (CD) and South China Morning Post (SCMP) in the duration of six months starting from the first protest in June 2019 to December 2019. The news reports were analyzed according to the Van Leeuwen’s (2008) Representation of Social Actor. The results of the study found that in general, both news outlets, CD and SCMP depicted instances of activation of the social actors in Hong Kong protests. The protestors were negatively represented in news reports of these two media outlets. The findings would provide insight to readers on how activation in role allocation is depicted through Discourse Analysis.
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