The Representation of Ibu Kota Nusantara in Detik.com News: A Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies
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Critical Discourse Analysis, Detik.com, Ibu Kota Nusantara, Corpus, RepresentationAbstract
Coverage of the Indonesian Capital City (IKN) has become a strategic issue in Indonesian media, particularly as this project represents political agendas, development, and national identity. Online media such as Detik.com play a crucial role in shaping public perception through their language choices and discourse strategies. Based on this, this study aims to uncover the representation of the Indonesian Capital City constructed by Detik.com. This study uses a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach, a combination of corpus linguistic analysis and critical discourse analysis. The research type is qualitative with the support of quantitative analysis (embedded design). The research data consists of 1,245 news articles about the IKN published by Detik.com throughout 2024, totaling 449,461 tokens. The data were collected through web scraping techniques using Octoparse software and compiled into a corpus. Quantitative analysis was conducted using AntConc software to extract word frequency, collocation, and concordance. The quantitative findings were then interpreted qualitatively using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis framework (text, discourse practice, and social practice), to produce an in-depth understanding of the representation of the IKN discourse. The data analyzed was selected purposively-proportionally. Testing the validity of data through method triangulation. The results show that Detik.com's reporting represents the IKN as a national strategic project dominated by institutional, symbolic, and technocratic discourses. The emerging lexicon emphasizes the role of the state, the personalization of the President, and the success of development, while the representation of society tends to be marginalized. Detik.com discursively reproduces the state's hegemonic narrative and normalizes development ideology and national symbolism, thus shaping a reality that favors state interests and ignores the diversity of public voices. These findings demonstrate how the media plays a role in shaping the ideological construction of the IKN project through selective discourse practices.
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