BLAMING THE VICTIM : REPRESENTASI PEREMPUAN KORBAN PEMERKOSAAN DI MEDIA MASSA (ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA DALAM PEMBERITAAN DI KORAN SUARA MERDEKA DESEMBER 2011 – FEBRUARI 2012)

Abstract

ABSTRACT Mass media especially newspaper is one of the medium that used to convey the messages which the readers will processed that messages as the reality through the proces of interpretation. News about rape in Suara Merdeka give us the image of women as rape victim. How the women potrayed in the news will gives society the idea of women as rape victim. It also affect how society seeing them as victim. The purpose of this study are to see how Suara Merdeka represent women as rape victims in their daily news which made by the journalists. Theory that used in this study was the Muted Group Theory by Cheris Kramarae. Reseacher would try to find the meanings that showns in news through semiotics with syntagmatic and paradigm analysis. Syntagmatic saw meanings that seen through text, meanwhile paradigm looked beyond into the meaning of text. In paradigm analysis, we used five major codes by Roland Barthes. The results of this study indicated that basically, in the news that Suara Merdeka writes about rape represent women as rape victims as passive figure, weak, and helpless when it comes to facing the perpetrators in every case of rape. Women are seen as someone who blamed when rape happens. They considered as the cause of rape for their presence. Women as rape victim also surrounded by the values in the society that makes them feel disanvantaged. Few stigma and labels that given by society when they become rape victims can give them a certain psychological burden. Key words: newspaper, representation of women, blaming the victim