Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Johandry Alberto. Thinking Violence from the Mediations: Epistemological Challenges in Communication. Signo pensam. [online]. 2013, vol.32, n.63, pp.16-32. ISSN 0120-4823.

The purpose of this article is to propose the analysis of violence from a communicative perspective based on a dual perspective: to investigate the role of media in violences and the role of violences in the media. It focuses on the study of violence from the subjectivity and, therefore, it uses the notion of mediations (mediaciones) of Martin-Barbero (2002, 2003), the reception studies of Orozco (1997) and the work of Imbert (2003, 2004). Violence claims a valid interpretation in symbolic terms, from media representations to construction in the collective imaginary. This discussion is emerging as an academic urgency, as it is needed to determine whether citizens have come to naturalize and legitimize - from mediation - violence and crime in Latin America.

Keywords : Media violence; depictions of violence in the media; symbolic violence; social mediations; reception studies; Violence in mass media; social aspects; Latin America; violence.

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