Kekerasan Simbolik pada Teks Pemberitaan COVID-19 di Media Daring Gorontalo

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a momentum for global and local mass media to compete to present news about the surge in cases of transmission of coronavirus diseases, including Gorontalo's local online media, Gopos.id. This research was raised from the problem of how the news text of COVID-19 in online media such as Gopos.id is displayed. The purpose of this research is to find out about the discourse on COVID-19 and to identify and find hidden signs of symbolic violence in the news text of COVID-19 on the online media Gopos.id through the use of certain words, phrases, or sentences. News texts are analyzed using qualitative methods with a knife of analysis using semiotics from M.A.K Halliday, which includes (a) the field of discourse, (b) the tenor of discourse, and (c) the mode of discourse. Based on the research results, symbolic violence in COVID-19 reporting texts in the online media Gopos.id tends to appear in discourse fields and discourse modes or language styles and is implicitly presented to the discourse participants. Because symbolic violence is invisible or hidden, victims tend not to realize it.Pandemi COVID-19 menjadi momentum ramainya media massa global dan lokal berlomba-lomba menyajikan pemberitaan tentang lonjakan kasus penularan coronavirus diseases, tidak terkecuali media daring lokal Gorontalo yakni Gopos.id. Penelitian ini diangkat dari permasalahan tentang bagaimana teks pemberitaan COVID-19 di media daring seperti Gopos.id ditampilkan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah mengetahui wacana tentang COVID-19, mengidentifikasi dan menemukan tanda-tanda kekerasan simbolik yang tersembunyi dalam teks pemberitaan COVID-19 di media daring Gopos.id melalui penggunaan kata, frasa, ataupun kalimat-kalimat tertentu. Teks pemberitaan dianalisis menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pisau analisisnya menggunakan semiotika dari M.A.K Halliday yang meliputi (a) medan wacana (field of discourse), (b) pelibat wacana (tenor of discourse), dan (c) mode wacana (mode of discourse). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian secara umum kekerasan simbolik pada teks pemberitaan COVID-19 di media daring Gopos.id cenderung muncul pada penggunaan medan wacana dan mode wacana atau gaya bahasa serta secara implisit dihadirkan pada pelibat wacana. Dikarenakan kekerasan simbolik adalah kekerasan tidak kasat mata atau kekerasan tersembunyi maka korban cenderung tidak menyadarinya