Indonesian Celebrity Affairs in Online News Portals (Critical Discourse Analysis of Sara Mills Perspective

Abstract

The aim of this research is to reveal: (1) The subject-object position in celebrity infidelity news found on online news portals according to Sara Mills discourse analysis, (2) The writer-reader position in celebrity infidelity news found on online news portals according to discourse analysis Sara Mills, (3) Representation of women in news texts about celebrity affairs found on online news portals. This type of research is qualitative research and was carried out using descriptive analysis methods. The results of this research show that the two online news portals, namely kompas.com and detik.com, both position women as subjects and objects present in news about celebrity affairs. Women as subjects are given the opportunity to present or represent themselves, whether women are perpetrators or victims of infidelity. However, women are present as objects of news from the media when women are not present to represent themselves in a news text. The reports from the two online news portals both bring readers into the position of narrator (storyteller) so that readers accept the story constructed by the media as a reality. Readers tend to side with the victim of infidelity, whether male or female. The two news portals also show that the position of women, both as victims and as perpetrators of infidelity, is equally shown to be an inferior gender to men. This can be revealed based on the findings of the representation of women's images contained in news texts from two online news portals. Frame images, pillar images, competition images and social images were found as the result of the construction of social reality built by the media.