Keraton Agung Sejagat dan Representasi Para Aktor Sosialnya dalam Wacana Berita di Kompas.com

The appearance of some new kingdoms in Indonesia seized the public’s attention. The media then covered and published the issue to the readers. Some perspectives used in gaining and reporting the news. One of their focuses is on how to represent any social actors involved. This paper will discuss what techniques used by the writer in representing any social actors in two news articles deal with Keraton Agung Sejagat released by Kompas.com. The aim is to give a description what techniques used and its implication to the news as a whole. Critical Discourse Analysis will be the domain of the paper, meanwhile van Leeuwen’s view of social actors will be the core. This qualitative-descriptive paper is conducted in three stages, which are data providing, analysis, and the presentation of the analysis. Based on the analysis, there are eleven techniques used, i.e. exclusion, inclusion, activation, passivation, genericization, specification, individualization, assimilation, nomination, categorization, and personalization