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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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Abstimmung; Gewalt; Gewaltkriminalität; Attentat; Drogenkriminalität; organisierte Kriminalität; Politik; Mexiko; Wahlverhalten; Wahl; Betrug; politische Gewalt
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Drogenhandel; Gewalttätigkeit; Gewaltverbrechen; Organisiertes Verbrechen; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung; Wahl; Wahldelikt; Wahlfälschungen/Wahlbetrug; Abstimmungsverhalten
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 239-263
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 14 (2022) 3
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)