La violencia intrafamiliar como representación en la prensa gráfica en el diario de mayor distribución en el interior de Argentina.

• Main Authors: Laura Valdemarca., Paola Bonavitta.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2011-01-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: Mass Media; Discourse; Domestic Violence.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/696/index.php?id=696

This article is a case study of how the most important newspaper from the interior of Argentina treats the issue of domestic violence. It is based on a study of primary sources and supported, methodologically, by discourse analysis. The discursive analysis of images related to domestic violence rests on the understanding that the media constructs social representations from a news-worthy criteria. We emphasize the ways in which such a construction supports various widely-entrenched beliefs, making it difficult for readers to go beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and become committed to resolving this social problem.