Construction of News on Violence Cases Againts Women in Online Media Tirto.id

Abstract

This study aims to construct news on violence cases against women published by Tirto.id online media in the dimensions of the text, discourse practices, and socio-cultural practices. The study used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data sources are found in three news in Tirto.id which fall into three types of violence, namely: sexual, psychological, and private violence. The data analysis technique is the Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis. Therefore, the results of the study are: (1) the dimensions of the text, representation in the form of diction, grammar, cohesion, metaphor, identity of place and journalists, (2) the dimensions of the practice of discourse are relevant to the vision of the media which contains comprehensive and investigative news involving the editor in chief, editors, and journalists, (3) the dimensions of sociocultural practices at the situational level that are produced according to the current situation by highlighting women as survivors of rape case not victims, institutional level involving several relevant sources related to the case, social level constructed of awareness of gender equality referring to ideology feminism, provides a positive image of women who experience rape, and leads readers' positive perceptions of tirto.id media for voicing women's equality through the construction of news published in tirto.id online media. Keywords—news, violence, women, online media