| dc.description.abstract | The editorial cartoon is a special term for the image column in the print
media, like newspapers or magazines, contains commentary on current events. It then
becomes confirmation for editorial cartoons as a means to comment on the news or
issues in a social situation. In this study, a single column or a single panel editorial
cartoon on the SKH Kedaulatan Rakyat deliberately chosen to represent the eruption
of Mount Merapi. However as an editorial in the form of visual, the actual problems
and criticism in the editorial cartoon is not explicitly described. Based on that
thought, then this study entitled ‘Editorial Cartoons as Social Critique Media’ with a
focus on the eruption of Mount Merapi situation.
Formulation of the problem in this study is how the social reality and
disclosure criticism in thematic editorial cartoons eruption of Mount Merapi in the
rubric Guyon Maton? Under these conditions, the purpose of this research was to
answer that problems, with the two order of significations semiotic analysis from
Barthes's. There are several finding in this research. First, there is a tendency of the
use ethics and morality in a criticism to avoid conflict. Second, the editorial cartoons
are always trying to connotes an actual topic with ethical value system. Third,
criticism in editorial cartoons seem more neutral to all parties, be it government,
victims of disasters or even the readers.
Key words:
Editorial cartoon, critics, representation, semiotic analysis, dennotates, connotates,
two order of significations | en_US |
