Analisis wacana teks redaksi portal berita online dalam mengonstruksi fenomena fomo dan kecemasan sosial gen z
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Critical Discourse Analysis, Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Generation Z, Mental Health, Media Commodification, Online News PortalsAbstract
The phenomenon of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and the mental health crisis among Generation Z are frequently exploited by digital media as economic commodities. This study aims to dismantle the ambivalence of Indonesian online news portals in representing FoMO and Gen Z's mental health through the lens of Teun A. van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which encompasses text structure (macromicro), journalists' social cognition, and sociocultural context. The research method is descriptive qualitative, employing a critical discourse analysis approach on news texts related to FoMO and Gen Z mental health across Indonesian online news portals during the 2025–2026 period, contextualized with national sociopsychological empirical data. The results indicate a double standard in journalism within the text structure: on one hand, the media frames FoMO as a frightening medical pathology using hyperbolic diction, yet on the other hand, romanticizes and glorifies it as a contemporary lifestyle trend to drive clickbait. At the social cognition level, journalists experience cognitive dissonance; while they individually understand Gen Z's psychological vulnerabilities, they are forced into ideological compromises due to the political-economic pressures of the newsroom and digital capitalism market regulations. In the sociocultural dimension, this commodification of discourse acts as a destructive agent of social
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