Dwijastuti, Paundria (2022) Transnational Comparative Framing Analysis on South China Sea Dispute in Southeast Asian Online Media Coverage 43KOM2022. Undergraduate thesis, FAKULTAS ILMU SOSIAL DAN ILMU POLITIK UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO.

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Abstract

The South China Sea conflict is one of the longest-running conflicts in Asia. The
significance of the sea is so crucial that it affects several aspects, such as the
economy, geopolitical, and maritime security within the region. In recent years,
China has used its history and domestic law to occupy the maritime claim over the
sea; this act developing an ambiguity in the disputed sea. Then again, the media has
a lot of societal responsibilities in terms of how they should report the right
information to the public. Reporters in conflict situations should report the news
without inflaming the situation. Instead, journalists should practice journalism in a
way that reconciles their differences.
The objective of this study is to analyze the framing of the South China Sea conflict.
This research focuses on forty publications of four online media in Southeast Asia;
The Jakarta Post, The Inquirer Philippine, The Star Online, and VietnamPlus as the
representatives of the media on the coverage of the South China Sea dispute. The
approach used in this study is a framing analysis, specifically with Guo’s method
of the Transnational Comparative Framing Model. Basing on the theories of peace
and war journalism, this study hypothesized that the four online media in Southeast
Asia incline toward war journalism.
This result of the framing analysis found that the media in Southeast Asia affirm
the main assumption of the research, showing that the media in Southeast Asia
opted for the war journalism in covering the news about the South China Sea
conflict. There are four main indicators which represent the war journalism which
include: elite-oriented, victory-oriented, propaganda-oriented, and partisan
coverage. This study also shows that the media in Southeast Asia mostly cover the
conflict through the lens of territorial dispute frame. This study affirms the
applicability of the theories and findings previous studies. From a media
perspective, this study emphasizes the need to take into account the importance of
peace journalism practice during a conflict.
Keywords: South China Sea conflict, Transnational Comparative Framing Model,
Peace Journalism, War Journalism

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