SUARA AKTIVIS DALAM KONTESTASI POLITIK 2024 DI MEDIA ONLINE (ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS DI MOJOK.CO DAN KUMPARAN.COM SELAMA MASA KAMPANYE)

In this research, the author raised the research title related to Activist Voices in the 2024 Political Contestation in Online Media (Critical Discourse Analysis on Mojok.co and Kumparan.com during the Campaign Period)
Online media is one of the campaign modes used by politicians in the campaign phase in general elections. However, ordinary people can also voice their aspirations through media on line. Through the UGC (User Generated Content) platform, it becomes an alternative forum for people who do not have access to convey their aspirations in the media. People who are able to voice their goals can be said to be activists. These activists' voices are often silenced by conventional media because they are too frontal and contrary to the media's ideology. So media that provide UGC features can be used as a forum for channeling aspirations because there are no ideological restrictions. What substance and how discourse can be produced by activists through the UGC platforms at mojok.co and kumparan are the focus points of this research
The main theory used to discuss this phenomenon is Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus and Arena theory. This theory tries to examine how habitus influences a person's behavior, including producing texts or messages, and also finds out how external factors of a person or what is known as the arena influence the way information is received and distributed.
The research methodology uses qualitative using Norman Fairclough's theory of Critical Discourse Analysis as a way to capture the results of activist voice reporting in the online media Mojok and Kumparan
The results of this critical discourse analysis are that activists during the campaign raised discourses related to the weakness of the democratic system in Indonesia. This research also found that the authorities always want to maintain the discourse of irregularities to maintain their power. Apart from that, mojok.co and kumparan have become good platforms as alternative media for reporting activist voices. However, media criticism that can be conveyed is an increase in the amount of information related to the author because this becomes a consideration for the public in legitimizing a report