Online News Media Research Articles

Rutinitas Kerja Jurnalis Media Online Dalam Pikiran Rakyat Media Network

This study discusses the routine of journalists in producing news in online media that is based on the Pikiran Rakyat Media Network, namely Serangnews.pikiran-rakyat.com and Kabarbanten.pikiran-rakyat.com. the research is motivated by the rise of online media that join in one company carrying the concept of collaborative economy. The focus of the problems analyzed is the process of selecting issues, choosing sources and word selection in news production by journalists, communicative events in the newsroom to the editorial gatekeeping process. The research method used is qualitative research, with ethnographic methods newsroom. Researchers used Shoemaker & Reese's hierarchy of influence theory to find out what influences media content as a result of routines in the newsroom. Determination of informants using purposive sampling techniques. The results obtained that the routine of journalists in producing content is influenced by the level of individuals and media routines. But the most influential factors are at the organizational level. Because it is related to the company's policy to produce content that can generate a lot of good profits for the Serangnews editorial team.mind-people journalists and Kabarbanten.pikiran.rakyat.com as well as for PRMN as the parent company.
 Keywords: Mass Communication, Online Media, PRMN, news Attack, News banten.

Confusing Content, Platforms, and Data: Young Adults and Trust in News Media

News media trust, and the lack thereof, has been a prominent topic of discussion among journalism scholars in recent years. In this article, we study young adults’ trust in news media from the perspectives of platformisation and datafication. For the empirical study, we collected interview data from 23 Finnish 19–25-year-old young adults and analysed it inductively with applied thematic analysis. Our analysis reveals that trust negotiation is relational and entails not accepted, but forced vulnerability in relation to news media and the platforms on which they operate. Unclarity about the agency of news media on social media platforms causes young adults to experience powerlessness and anxiety in the face of data collection, which in practice translates into indifference toward their data being used by both news media and social media platforms. We show that young adults face a variety of challenges when navigating the online (news) media environment, which as we identify, can result in three trust-diminishing confusions about content, platforms, and data. This may have profound effects on how journalism is viewed as a cornerstone of a democratic society.

A corpus-assisted discourse study on the construction of ‘obesity’ in Indonesian news media

Obesity is one of the health issues that is susceptible to discursive contestation and negotiation. The way it is portrayed in news media can affect public opinions and policymakers. This study aims to investigate the construction of ‘obesity’ in Indonesian online news media over a five-year period (2017-2021). The analysis was based on a corpus consisting of 1.418 news articles that mentioned the word ‘obesitas’ (obesity) by drawing upon corpus-assisted discourse study framework and legitimation theory. The findings showed that ‘obesity’ was predominantly constructed as a problem of personal responsibility, where individuals were viewed as solely responsible for minimising the risk of obesity and its associated health issues by losing or regulating their weight. This was frequently legitimised through expert authority by referring to medical experts’ interviews, or through impersonal authority by referring to scientific research. Meanwhile, the societal responsibility discourse which focused on the role of government and the food industry in creating conditions that led to obesity was very scarce. It is argued that this may reflect the presence of prevailing neoliberal ideology in Indonesian society. More balanced reporting, therefore, is recommended to lessen the stigmatisation of people with obesity and to recognise the variety of determinants of and solutions to obesity, reflecting its complexity more accurately.

The Power of Narration in Online Media to Support the Sustainability of Maos Batik

The research showed that historical events could create a narrative on batik motifs. The chronicle of the Javanese War had always been a part of the origins of Banyumasan Batik, including Maos Batik. The narrative about the Diponegoro War code on Maos Batik was a success factor in increasing the uniqueness of the Maos Batik. Although the truth was uncertain, this narrative was published and popularized through trusted online news media. The research used narrative analysis with a qualitative descriptive approach. Narrative data were collected through reliable sources, narrative analysis from Propp, and the semiotics of the Barthes signification system to reveal the myths and ideologies contained in the Maos Batik motif. Online questionnaire data was from 108 respondents to determine the respondent interest level after knowing the Batik motif's narrative as the code for the Diponegoro War. The research reveals that the narrative of the Maos Batik motif as a code for the Diponegoro War cannot be clarified the truth of its history. However, the socialization carried out by the company owners through the popularity of the leading online news media has made this narrative considered historical truth. Strengthened by the myths contained in the Maos Batik motif, it can function to naturalize history. If this is not considered a historical fact, then the narrative can be accepted as a marketing strategy. The dissemination of the narrative in Maos Batik through trusted online news media can enhance the uniqueness of Maos Batik, which becomes a differentiation from other regions. This attracts consumers to buy and supports sustainability of Maos Batik.

Concept and challenges of a social media observatory as a DIY research infrastructure

This article describes the basic concept, ethical and legal considerations, technical implementation as well as resulting tools and data collections of the Social Media Observatory (SMO). Since 2020, the SMO is developed as an open science research infrastructure within the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) in Germany. It focuses on (the support of) long-term monitoring of public communication on selected platforms and online news media to answer social science-related research questions. Based on systematically compiled lists of public speaker categories, such as parliamentarians or media organizations, it collects statistics as well as content data to study the German social media discourse in comparison to mass media. Aggregated results are published via interactive dashboards. Raw data is published as ID lists for reproduction or shared with researchers upon request. Following a do-it-yourself approach to infrastructure, the SMO further provides various tools, curated datasets, and documented workflows, for instance, to run thematic ad-hoc data collections. As a main feature, it maintains a curated knowledge base in wiki format to enable other researchers to perform systematic social media observations on their own.

Nuclear Weapon Discussion on G20 Forum

Indonesia holds a key role as host of the G20 Presidency in 2022. Many international media highlighted this summit and the issues that has been discussed inside.As a world economic forum, G20 Presidency in Indonesia also reviewed about the international security issue, one of it is nuclear weapon threat. This study identifies, analyze, and compares the content produced by Indonesia (Kompas.com), United Kingdom (BBC.co.uk), and Saudi Arabia's online news media (aawsat.com), surrounding the frame of nuclear weapons issue on G20 Forum. The study utilizes the framing analysis model of Zhondang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki, to explain the message that communicated by the three countries related on nuclear weapon issue on G20 summit. The major findings clearly captured that every media adopted different rhetorical frames through the media coverage of the G20 Presidency in Indonesia. Related on nuclear weapon issue, Indonesian media imply a neutral approach, different with UK's media that used straightforward approach or Saudi's media with interior approach.

A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites

<span>To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the disappearance of local media outlets (e.g., newspapers and TV stations) to the social fabric of a community. In this article, we extend the concept of “news deserts” by drawing on literature on the geography of news in Africa, where information voids have long been documented but have not been studied within the conceptual framework of news deserts. Using computational tools, we analyse a sample of 519,004 news articles published in English or French by news websites in 39 African countries. We offer evidence of the existence of online news deserts at two levels: at a continental level (i.e., some countries/regions are hardly ever covered by online media of other African countries) and at a domestic level (i.e., online news media of a given country seldom cover large areas of the said country). This article contributes to the study of news deserts by (a) examining a continent that has not been featured in previous research, (b) testing a methodological approach that employs computational tools to study news geographies online, and (c) exploring the flexibility of the term and its applicability to different media ecosystems.</span>

Systematic news media scanning and synthesis: creating a dataset of emergent initiatives and localized responses to public washroom provision in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.

News media are an underused source of localized information on complex and structural public health issues that are neglected in policy and unaccounted for in mainstream data collection. We applied systematic review search methods to online news media and developed a dataset highlighting municipal reactions and initiatives in response to public washroom pressures during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliance on consumer-based models of washroom access "became news" amid the closures and lockdowns. Our results showed that many municipalities were grappling with the issue, but overwhelmingly responding with temporary and pandemic-specific measures that did not address the needs of marginalized groups.

Indonesian online news and digital culture: a media ecology perspective

The number of Internet users in Indonesia continues to increase, with more and more people using electronic gadgets connected to the Internet. It is also quite clear to see the phenomenon related to the emergence of online news in the digital realm. The researchers review and characterise Indonesian online news from the media ecology perspective. By doing library research, a literature review will be composed and used to describe online news and digital culture in Indonesia in media ecology. The result shows that the increasing use of the Internet has resulted in the rise of online news media, which seem to have replaced traditional media. In the context of Indonesia's digital culture, multimedia features in online news have the potential to attract readers' interest. At the same time, social media provides space for independent online news and community participation in the digital world to shape social, political, and cultural values.

NARASI PELIYANAN PEMBERITAAN ANIES BASWEDAN PASCA DEKLARASI PENCALONAN PRESIDEN 2024 DALAM DETIK.COM: KAJIAN ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS

This article aims to analyze the news regarding Anies Baswedan after the declaration of the presidential nomination by the NasDem Party based on Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis approach. The data source comes from news related to Anies Baswedan in the online news media Detik.com. Documentation techniques were used in this study through observing, taking notes, and capturing screens. The data is in the form of the title and text of Anies Baswedan's news coverage on the online media Detik.com for two months, namely between 03 October 2022 and 03 December 2022. The results of data identification at the textual level and discourse practice show a tendency that is not neutral in reporting on Anies Baswedan. Reports on the online media Detik.com tend not to support Anies Baswedan in his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election and favor other figures. On the dimension of sociocultural practice, news production related to Anies Baswedan on Detik.com is related to situational aspects and the institutional background of the media. In addition, Indonesia's social and political context after the 2017 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election and the 2019 presidential election influenced Anies Baswedan's opinion as an opposition figure to President Jokowi's government, which was supported by the Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan.

The Reporting of Brigadier J Murder on Indonesian Police’s Official News Media: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis

This study aimed to analyze the discourses in news articles regarding the Brigadier J murder reported by the Indonesian Police’s official news media & the attempts of the institution in framing the image of the Indonesian Police in handling the murder case through particular words used by the institution’s news media. Further, this study used the descriptive qualitative method as its methodological approach & the corpus-based discourse analysis method as its theoretical approach. The data in this study were taken from news articles from Indonesian Police’s official news media website. The results of the study showed that the relevant keyword used by Indonesian Police news media to frame the murder case of Brigadier J case is the word murder and or premeditated murder. Besides, the way Indonesian Police online news media frame the image of the institution is by distributing positive news about the institution, as well as designating the positions & titles within the names of the officials. Furthermore, the Indonesian Police news media is engaging several positive adjectives to distribute positive images regarding the Police’s accomplishment in handling the murder case of Brigadier J.

Election predictions in the news: how users perceive and respond to visual election forecasts

ABSTRACT Political journalism often tries to predict the future, especially the outcomes of elections. This has historically been accomplished through written articles or opinion pieces. A more recent development involves the publication of data-driven predictions in online news media. These news items not only contain an estimate for the election results but also often try to visualize potential uncertainties of the prediction. However, the ways in which users react to these forms of journalism have not yet been studied extensively. In this work, we survey users of a predictive journalism piece on the 2021 German federal elections published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung to better understand their reactions. While we found an alignment between the designers' intention to show the inherent uncertainty of election predictions with the audience's reception, we encountered mixed results in users' ability to interpret the uncertainty visualizations presented. Most respondents indicated that the predictions did not influence their thinking about the race, and some remained skeptical toward such predictions published by journalists for various reasons. Based on these findings, we suggest the need for rigorous user testing of visualizations for election prediction and increased awareness and future research on ways to increase the transparency of methods and data to develop appropriate trust toward predictive journalism.

Sentiment Analysis of the 2024 Presidential Candidates Using SMOTE and Long Short Term Memory

Numerous political leaders participate in elections since they are a crucial component of the political process. Since electability is an issue, steps are taken to make political candidates running in general elections more electable. The media, including internet news media, has emerged as one of the key strategies for raising electability. Reader comments can be analyzed for sentiment to provide an evaluation of political figures. However, because the comments contain unstructured content, particularly in Indonesian text, it is difficult to interpret the sentiments of different comments in online news media. In this research, an analysis of public sentiment towards the 2024 presidential candidates will be carried out which is expressed through the Twitter social network. There are several stages to carry out sentiment analysis, including the stages of data collection, data preprocessing, balancing the distribution of the number of datasets, and sentiment classification using the LSTM method with word2vec feature representation. The results of this study show that the LSTM method combined with SMOTE due to the limited amount of data is able to produce a fairly good LSTM model with an average accuracy of 89.42% and a loss value of 0.24, the ideal scenario is when the accuracy is high and the loss is minimal, in which case the LSTM model only exhibits minor errors on a subset of the data.

Ideological Construction of the Mass Media: Study of Religious Moderation News in the National Online News Media and its Relation to Moderate Da’wah

This study analyzes the ideological construction of the mass media in reporting on religious moderation and its relation to moderate da’wah on Kompas.com and Mediaindonesia.com. This research is a type of qualitative research. News as a unit of analysis was selected by purposive sampling each of 3 (news) for each media. Problems are analyzed with Robert M. Entman's framing analysis which is part of the analysis of mass media texts. This research concludes that Kompas and Media Indonesia construct ideology in religious moderation news which is associated with issues of intolerance and radicalism. These two national media construct news on religious moderation using a moderate national ideology. Concerning moderate da’wah, these two national media do not directly write news with moderate da’wah messages. These two national media construct support for moderate da’wah narratives by constructing religious moderation news. Ideologically, these two national online news media construct news by supporting the practice of religious moderation and the practice of moderate da’wah. The implication is that these two national online mass media need to continue to produce news campaigning for religious moderation and moderate da’wah. News construction related to religious moderation and moderate da’wah needs to be done to help prevent the emergence of radical, extremist, and liberal views.

Impact of Concurrent Media Exposure on Professional Identity: Cross-Sectional Study of 1087 Medical Students During Long COVID.

Long COVID has widened the health gap across society and highlighted the vulnerabilities and risks faced by health care systems. For instance, the global trend of medical workers resigning has become a prominent topic on social media. In response to this severe social problem in global public health within the digital society, it is urgent to investigate how the professional identity of medical students, who are digital natives and the future workforce of medical practitioners, is affected by the media environment. This study aims to examine how media exposure relates to medical students' perceptions of informational and emotional support, and how these perceptions further influence the development of their professional identity. Building on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) framework, this study develops a theoretical model to illustrate how media exposure affects medical students' professional identity through the mediation of social support. Specifically, media exposure was assessed through online news media and social media exposure; social support was evaluated in terms of informational and emotional support; and professional identity was measured through medical students' sense of belonging and professional commitment. A survey was conducted at a medical school in China, yielding 1087 valid responses that were analyzed using SmartPLS 4.0. Consistent with our expectations, online news media exposure was positively associated with both informational support (β=.163; P<.001) and emotional support (β=.084; P=.007). Similarly, social media exposure showed positive associations with informational support (β=.122; P<.001) and emotional support (β=.235; P<.001). Thereafter, informational support (β=.228; P<.001) and emotional support (β=.344; P<.001) were positively associated with students' sense of belonging. Meanwhile, both informational support (β=.245; P<.001) and emotional support (β=.412; P<.001) positively impacted medical students' professional commitment. In addition, a mediation test was conducted. The results confirmed that informational support and emotional support partially mediated the effect of online news media, while fully mediating the effect of social media on medical students' sense of belonging and professional commitment. This study finds that exposure to online news media and social media can enhance medical students' sense of belonging and professional commitment through the formation of informational and emotional support. It expands the discussion on the role of media in providing social support and facilitating the development of medical students' professional identity. This is a valuable contribution to addressing complex public health crises through effective media governance in the network era.

Penerapan Kode Etik Foto Jurnalistik Pada Berita Hukum Dan Kriminal Di Media Online Sumeks.co

This thesis is entitled "Application of the Photojournalistic Code of Ethics in Legal and Criminal News in Sumeks.co Online Media". The problem raised from this research is how to apply the photojournalistic code of ethics to legal and criminal news in online media Sumeks.co, how to photo news portals on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram online media Sumeks.co. This type of research is qualitative, the main or primary source is the acquisition of information in the form of words and sentences, either in the form of questions or statements. Data collection techniques through observation and documentation and use semiotic theory. Snowball sampling was used and the writer was able to gather more information to fill in the data gaps. Based on these findings, it is clear that most of the views of journalists about how the Journalistic Code of Ethics should be applied are contrary to the regulations stipulated therein. Likewise, the Journalistic Code of Ethics regulates the behavior of journalists and the media regarding the use of photographs in reporting. As with other online media, Sumeks.co will strive to comply with the Photojournalism Code of Ethics in all its reporting. However, this is easier said than done, given the nature of the Code of Conduct itself and the difficulty of coordination between journalists in the field and news editors. In addition, also see how the Sumeks.co media portal photos on other social media such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

Online News Media Analysis on Information Management of “G20 Summit” Based on Social Network Analysis

This paper contributes to the Special Issue on Communication for the Digital Media Age by investigating the factors that influence the management of political information on online news media platforms, specifically Twitter and Weibo. Using the recent “G20 Summit” as a case study, this study employs a mixed-methods approach that incorporates both deductive and inductive reasoning. Social network analysis (SNA) and graph theory are used to evaluate specific social relationships in the context of the G20 summit, while a combination of structured and content (semantic) analysis is performed. The findings indicate that individual power is becoming increasingly important in the age of online news media. Individuals contribute significantly to the diffusion of information and may play a decisive role in the future. The study also finds that the frequency of retweets increases as the reciprocity ratio increases, and mentions may be the most effective method for delivering political news on online news media platforms. Practical implications suggest strategies for managing information diffusion effectively. Additionally, this study provides insights into effective information diffusion on online news media platforms that can be utilized in health communication management during the COVID-19 era. This study expands theoretical understanding by investigating the role of individual power in the age of online news media and enriching the literature on online news media through the use of structured and content analysis based on social network analysis.

Becoming European Through Football Media? Representations of Europe in German Football News Coverage

In recent decades, the administrative and competitive structures of men’s elite club football in Europe have undergone a profound transformation toward Europeanization. As a result, football fans are increasingly exposed to European influences. These dynamics shape fans’ perceptions of and orientations toward Europe and contribute to constructions of collective identities. Because football is a highly mediatized sport, fans’ exposure to European influences and their constructions of identity are highly dependent on the representation of Europe in football media. To analyze this, we conducted a quantitative analysis of text-based online news media. Using selected German media outlets, we examined the extent and the patterned variation of media representation of Europe in football news articles. Our results indicate a highly selective media environment focused on a limited set of countries with high sporting relevance and a presence of German national-team players, while other countries rarely enter the media discourse.

Challenging the elite-public divide; Representing former Indonesian first lady, Ani Yudhoyono in online news discourse

Women in politics invariably attract heightened levels of attention due to their marked difference to the masculine political norm. With the rise of social media and online news, political women can achieve visibility, but also experience even more intense scrutiny. Former first lady, Ani Yudhoyono became an iconic figure in the lead up to the 2014 Indonesian presidential election, through her association with her husband’s flailing presidency, and as a high-profile political woman involved in social media blunders. Using critical discourse analysis, specifically social actor analysis, this paper examines the discursive strategies engaged by the mainstream Indonesian online news media to malign Ani Yudhoyono, and draw a wedge between her and the Indonesian public, which in turn undermined her husband’s presidency. The analysis highlights the role of online news media discourse in shaping power relations and ideological groupings, as well as the role of first lady as a target of political contestation.

Online News Media Portrayal of ADHD on the Websites of BBC and CNN International during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Purpose. Individuals with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have experienced exacerbated symptoms and negative effects during the pandemic on both physical and mental health. However, the leading global news websites did not cover the vulnerabilities and special needs of individuals with ADHD in the context of the neurodiversity approach. I argue that both cnn.com and bbc.com did not incorporate the neurodiversity approach aiming to increase acceptance and inclusion of the differences without viewing them as deficits. Methods. The present study explores online news media portrayal of ADHD during the COVID-19 pandemic through content analysis between March 2020 and October 2022. The news articles mentioning ADHD (64 from bbc.com and 56 from cnn.com) were analyzed. Results. Findings show that ADHD was dominantly framed as a medical issue, far from the neurodiversity perspective. Only 13 news articles among 64 (approximately 20%) on bbc.com and 4 among 56 (less than 10%) on cnn.com incorporated the neurodiversity approach that would benefit both individuals with ADHD and the whole society during the pandemic. Practice Implications. The findings show a need for more awareness of neurodiversity in the news media and a broader coverage of ADHD-related neurodiversity during the pandemic.