Semiotics Picture Essay On The Instagram Account Of Ridwan Kamil

Abstract

This research was aimed to described the semiotics sign on the pictures and essay (captions) in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil. The objectives of this research were to find out the types of semiotic of each pictures in Ridwan Kamil’s picture essay and describe the message conveyed in Ridwan Kamil’s picture and essay. This research was applied descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was taken from Instagram account of Ridwan Kamil by captured the pictures, it took fifteen pictures of Ridwan Kamil’s instagram account to analyze the semiotic, which focussed to pictures and essay (captions) that published on December 2016 until January 2017. The findings of this research were found the types of semiotic signs, they were icon, index and symbol on the pictures and captions in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil. Every pictures in the instagram account of Ridwan Kamil have different messages.