Media Performance During General Election

Ika Karlina, Atika Budhi Utami, Tri Wahyuti

2019

Abstract

Media play a vital role in democracy. Media functions as social control and as a means of information allow the public to receive free access to information. In the age of openness, fact-checked information should be provided to people rather than biased news. The research discusses the media coverage of the general election, which was conducted simultaneously in Indonesia on 17 April 2019. The study is based on the media performance concept by McQuail (Mazzoleni, 2015) that independence, objectivity, informativeness, and diversity are the indicators to measure journalist performance. The method used is content analyses of 192,800 tweets of news site’s Twitter accounts and 800 samples of news gathered from February to April 2019. Samples are taken from tweets posted by seven accounts of major news sites in Indonesia: Detikcom, Kompascom, Tempoco, Sindonews, Merdeka, Viva, and Okezone. Of the 192,800 tweets, 60,876 related to the election. The main topics of the news coverage in the seven news sites in this study are the candidates (49.08%), topics related to the election in general (15.58%), infrastructure (9.41%), law (7.08%), social welfare (6.76%), environment (6.65%), economy (5.74%), energy (2.45%), national security (2.25%), presidential debate (2.01%).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Karlina I., Utami A. and Wahyuti T. (2019). Media Performance During General Election.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI, ISBN 978-989-758-461-9, pages 96-101. DOI: 10.5220/0009400500960101

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoaci19,
author={Ika Karlina and Atika Budhi Utami and Tri Wahyuti},
title={Media Performance During General Election},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,},
year={2019},
pages={96-101},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009400500960101},
isbn={978-989-758-461-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,
TI - Media Performance During General Election
SN - 978-989-758-461-9
AU - Karlina I.
AU - Utami A.
AU - Wahyuti T.
PY - 2019
SP - 96
EP - 101
DO - 10.5220/0009400500960101