{"title":"Positioning of Covid-19 Patients in West Sumatra in News on \u0000 Online Media","authors":"Yulia Bastianingsih, Ngusman Abdul Manaf","doi":"10.2991/assehr.k.211201.047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211201.047","url":null,"abstract":"Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been shocked by the presence of a new virus named Coronavirus Disease 2019 which is shortened to Covid-19. Covid-19 is a disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The development of Covid-19 cases, which can be seen in various ways, has attracted the attention of the mass media. Problems C ovid-19 is the wildi h almost all countries in the world, Indonesia is no exception. As of August 2020, more than one hundred thousand Indonesian citizens who have tested positive for Covid-19 have been confirmed. The way the news of Covid-19 affects the mental anxiety of Covid-19 sufferers and news readers. In this regard, the method of reporting on Covid-19, especially the positioning of Covid-19 sufferers in the news, needs to be investigated. The objectives of this study are (1) to produce an explanation of the positioning of Covid-19 sufferers in West Sumatra in news texts in online media ; (2) Produce an explanation about the depiction of Covid-19 sufferers in West Sumatra in the news in online media as the wrong people or as people who are given four i. The results of this study provide a significant contribution to the development of the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis. This research uses descriptive method . The data for this study are sentences containing positioning information for Covid-19 sufferers in news texts in online media in West Sumatra. The data sources for this research are news texts regarding the development of Covid-19 in West Sumatra from October to November 2020. The online news sites that are the source of this research data are Langgam.id and Padang Kita . The result of this research is t erdapat 3 data showing patients se like the subject in the report text and 47 data indicating the patient as an object in the text .","PeriodicalId":121100,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE-4 2021)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122136158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}