<![CDATA[This study examines the representation of online gambling players (judol) in Kompas.com and Detik.com news with the Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK) approach of the Teun A. van Dijk model. This study examines how the two media construct the identity of a judol player, whether as a victim who needs to be rehabilitated or as a perpetrator who is fully responsible for his actions. The study used a qualitative method with a critical paradigm of six purposively selected news articles, three from Kompas.com and three from Detik.com (2024–2026). The data were analyzed following the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014) on van Dijk's three dimensions: text structure, social cognition, and social context. The results showed a consistent but different pattern of representation in both media. Kompas.com to frame the 'struggling victim' through empathic-medical diction, active sentences that defend agency, and narratives of recovery. Detik.com to form a framing of 'victim as well as threat' through dramatic diction, passive sentences that reduce agency, and disaster narratives. Thus, the difference between the two media does not lie in the dichotomy of victim and perpetrator, but in two ideologically different variants of victim framing. This difference stems from the social cognition of journalists and the institutional context of the two media. Both media have the same ideological weakness, namely not presenting bookmakers and digital platforms as structural actors. Theoretically, this finding extends the episodic-thematic framing thesis of Iyengar (1991) on Indonesian-language digital discourse, namely that framing centered on individual performers tends to cover the role of more powerful parties. The implication is that this kind of news has the potential to divert public attention from the responsibility of structural actors, so journalists and editors need to develop more structurally balanced headline coverage.]]>
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