Abstract

SAEZ, Virginia. Symbolic Struggles in the Visibility of the School. An Analysis of the Construction of Perpetrators of Situations of Violence in the Media. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2020, n.78, pp.121-146. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num80-6974.

This article presents an exploratory study that analyzes the presentation of the victimizers in episodes of violence in schools in the speeches of the newspapers El día, Hoy, Extra and Diagonales on violence in schools, in the city of La Plata (Argentina) in the period 1993-2011. Given the characteristics of the object of inquiry the methodological approach was qualitative, and the information was analyzed in the framework of the educational discourse analysis. Among the results, we observed that a dichotomous look is built to explain the violent episodes and that they prevail as recurrent senses to characterize the perpetrators: the carrying of threatening elements, the visibility of discredited bodies, the reference to "faceless" subjects and the action in a bands or patotas It emerges as an interpretative hypothesis that the images of the press, as a privileged support to represent the perpetrators, discipline the social view of young students. We conclude that this way of representing the facts comes into play with the dynamics of social stigmatization. The practices of visibility are an act of recognizing a legitimate way of being a young student as opposed to others who are not. For its originality, this study constitutes a precedent for future inquiries on media representations of violence in the school space.

Keywords : school; mass media; violence; student.

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