EXPLORING ONLINE NEWS AS COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN VENDATU AT INDIA AND RUANGGURU FROM INDONESIA IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, schools are closed in India and Indonesia. Governments have to make hard decisions which result in students are having a hard time studying. They have to stay and study at home. Not all schools are ready for online school as the tools or systems are not ready. Fortunately, Vedantu and RuangGuru as education platforms based on mobile applications and computers give free access to students in times of COVID-19. Through this research the authors find many ideations come up back and forth through the process from the decision which the governments made until solutions come from the support of Vedantu and RuangGuru application. In this journal, the authors try to compare two news reported by NewIndianExpress.com and JakartaGlobe.id where the authors find three parts of news that have similar ideations and the three categories which in part of ideation (cognitive, emotional, social). To analyze the news the authors use Mayring methodology as the tools to analyze textual content and ideations as the theory to compare between the two news. There are three similarities being compared between India and Indonesia. Firstly, the governments‘ policy to prevent the spread COVID-19 where they want to establish beliefs, values, and self-image through cognitive categories, Secondly Decision making to close the school and start online learning which is not well-prepared as their emotional category involved to bring self-efficacy and responses, Lastly Vedantu and Ruangguru come to support and influence (Social category).