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Abstract

This research aimed to explain ideological representation in news discourse on the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in online mass media through (a) the use of language units, (b) text production, and (c) sociocultural practice. The data were words, sentences and texts from mass media online Tempo.co and Tribunnews.com March-May 2020 edition that focused on President Jokowi's performance in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This research also used related text about sociocultural practice (situational, institutional, and social context) that obtained from browsing on internet sites. The data were collected through documentation technique. The data analysis was carried out using the critical discourse analysis technique of Fairclough. The analysis result found that: first, the language units used to represent ideology, including personal pronouns, sentence modalities, sentence modes, active-passive sentences, and metaphors. Second, media news text is presented using certain patterns and strengthened by the exposure of the position (the views of the sources) and the evidence (the factual data). Third, the sociocultural practices used by news text makers to represent ideology include situational, institutional, and social contexts. Fourth, the ideology that is represented through these language units, text production, and sociocultural practices is the ideology of liberalism and subjectivity.

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