Youngsters, violence and means of communication

Authors

  • Raúl Zarzuri Cortés

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.327

Keywords:

jovens e violência, meios de comunicação, violência performativa

Abstract

This article presents an account on the relation among the young, violence and the media. It approaches the construction of certain kinds of youngsters as “social monsters” and, therefore, stigmatized by means of communication as socially undesired youngsters by means of the analysis of secondary education students that had their AUGE in the so called “revolución pinguina”, which has raised the discussion of public opinion about the inequality and unfairness that exist in Chilean education. It highlights the means of communication role, particularly the one of the press and television, in the construction of an imaginary of the young as “violent youngsters” and it also does a brief interpreting exercise of young violence understood as a “performance” that is used by the means to sell and increase their audience.

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Published

10-03-2009

How to Cite

Cortés, R. Z. (2009). Youngsters, violence and means of communication. E-Compós, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.327

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Artigos Originais