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Minimalist storytelling: the natural framing of electoral violence by Mexican media
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Abstract During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Mexico's so-called drug war claimed around a quarter of a million lives. Adapting to this enduring epidemic of violence, the print media have adopted a minimalist reporting style that gives only thin, formulaic accounts of violent events. As ... view more
During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Mexico's so-called drug war claimed around a quarter of a million lives. Adapting to this enduring epidemic of violence, the print media have adopted a minimalist reporting style that gives only thin, formulaic accounts of violent events. As I argue, established journalistic minimalism does more than provide little information about violence. With practised impassiveness, it frames violence in a way that creates a certain narrative: not of social actors to be understood but of natural events to be endured. Through a qualitative content analysis of over 1200 news reports, I examine the persistent force of this "natural" frame in the face of an extraordinary development: the unprecedented intrusion of political violence into the 2018 general elections, when forty-eight candidates were assassinated.... view less
Keywords
voting; violence; violent crime; attempted assassination; drug-related crime; organized crime; politics; Mexico; voting behavior; election; fraud; political violence
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Free Keywords
Drogenhandel; Gewalttätigkeit; Gewaltverbrechen; Organisiertes Verbrechen; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung; Wahl; Wahldelikt; Wahlfälschungen/Wahlbetrug; Abstimmungsverhalten
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 239-263
Journal
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 14 (2022) 3
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed