Abstract

BELLO ARELLANO, Daniel. Construction of Reality through Media: Islamic Terrorism, Geopolitical interests and Crime Rate at the Parana Tri-Border Area. anagramas rumbos sentidos comun. [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.26, pp.115-136. ISSN 1692-2522.

This article examines the role played by the media in the construction of reality, and specifically the role played -more clearly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Virginia- by the American media -including some newspapers, television stations, magazines, and governmental agencies' websites (where official documents are periodically published)- and certain "alternative media" (anti-capitalist and anti-American), mainly Latin American, in the construction of the external image of the so-called Parana Tri-Border Area (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina). As it will be seen, these representations - especially the American ones-, despite having little support, have contributed to produce a negative external image of the area, almost cinematic, marked by the presence of Islamic terrorists, traffickers of all kinds of products and CIA agents, a view that seems to differ from the one that prevails within the Tri-Border Area.

Keywords : Parana Tri-Border Area; media; alternative media; construction of reality; Islamic terrorism; geopolitical interests.

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