AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION OF FEMINIST ELEMENTS IN “SORE-ISTRI DARI MASA DEPAN” WEB SERIES A Reception Analysis Method

Abstract

SORE-Istri Dari Masa Depan is one of the web series that gets quite a high number of viewers in every episode. This web series consists of 8 (eight) episodes and was frst broadcast on the YouTube channel on January 31, 2017, with more than 2 million viewers. Sponsored by Tropicana Slim, this web series brings out an element of feminism in which the female fgure, Sore, can control and even change the life of a man, Jo, for the better. The research used the reception analysis method and Stuart Hall’s Encoding-Decoding theory by taking 5 (fve) informants. The result of this research is the fve informants viewed the position of women and men as equal, although sometimes women hold power (domination) over men, men can also do the same thing.