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Gender, Communication and Media

Blaming the Victim: Reporting on Female Murder

Victims on Online News Portals

Syafira Natasya, Vitania Yulia, Rinaldi

Universitas Andalas

This research is entitled ‘Blaming the Victim: Reporting on Female Murder

Victims on Online News Portals.’ The purpose of this study is to analyze the

strategy of blaming the victim against women victims of murder in crime news

and to analyze the structure of ideas that are arranged in packaging the meaning

of blaming the victim in cases of murder of women. The method used is

descriptive qualitative research method.

In this study, it was found that the murder case of women on Detik.com was not

reported neutrally. This can be seen from the coverage of female victims, which is

bigger than the perpetrators. Female victims are described in more detail both in

terms of identity and other attributes. The results of the analysis conducted by

researchers see that Detik.com news leads to blaming the victim by taking

advantage of the stigma of women in society as if when.

Keywords: Women, news, murder, Detik.com, blaming the victim.

Short Biography:

Syafira Natasya is an undergraduated student of Communication Science in

Andalas University, Padang. She has interest in communications studies for

gender, media and journalistic. She is on progress finishing study on framing

analysis about blaming the victim on female murder victims on online news

portals. She can be reached at synatasya99@gmail.com

Vitania Yulia, MA is a teaching staff in Communication Department, Faculty of

Social and Political Science University of Andalas, Indonesia. She is currently

Head of Major in Media, TV and Film Studies. Her research interested including

audience research, children and media issues, film studies, etc.

Rinaldi, S.Sos, M.I.Kom is a teaching staff in Communication Department,

Faculty of Social and Political Science University of Andalas, Indonesia. He is

currently Head of Major in Journalistic. Him research interested including media

and journalistic etc.

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