WACANA VISUAL ILUSTRASI KORUPSI DALAM RUBRIK OPINI KOMPAS PERIODE 2011

Abstract

Illustration is a visual language which is used by mass
media for commenting news or hot issues which develop in
society. Editorial illustration, for example, not only plays a role as
an esthetic element at the rubric but also can describe its attitude
and the media politic line in which it was published. During 2011
period, Kompas has been lightened up many corruption cases that
still happen this day, not only through editorial illustration but
also through an opinion article illustration. Both of those
illustrations put out the opinion rubric in Monday-Saturday
edition. This paper discusses the illustration meaning and its
relation within the article, the ways in which the corruption’s
information was shown through illustration and the publics’
interpretation to the corruption’s illustration which was put on the
opinion rubric at Kompas during 2011 period. To discover the
answer of the problems that are investigated and to obtain the
purpose which has been settled, this research uses qualitative
approach with discourse analysis method. Through this research,
a process model of visual discourse construction is also found.