Reconstruction and representation of the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teacher-trainees: journalistic information vs research report

Authors

  • Yonathan Alexander Escobar-Arboleda Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ)
  • Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ)

Keywords:

media representation, misinformation, forced disappearance

Abstract

This article compares the journalistic reporting of Reforma and La Jornada newspapers with the report published by Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes (GIEI) -Independent Expert Interdisciplinary Group-, about the disappearance of the 43 teacher-trainees of Ayotzinapa (Mexico) from 26th to 27th of September 2014. The analysis reveals that the news information is imprecise, confusing, and in many cases, misleading, in comparison to that offered by the GIEI. This way of constructing reality becomes a strategy for misinformation that contravenes not only the victims' right to lean the truth but also the readers' right to be informed.

Author Biographies

Yonathan Alexander Escobar-Arboleda, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ)

Master in Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ), Master in Literature Hermeneutics and Bachelor degree in Social Communication with a mention in Political Communication, Universidad EAFIT en Medellín, Colombia. Active member of the Research Group in Analysis of oral and written discourse (GIADI in Spanish).

Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ)

Doctor in Linguistics, Colegio de México, México. Professor and researcher of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Lead of the Research Group in Analysis of oral and written discourse (GIADI in Spanish), Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Published

2019-11-15 — Updated on 2020-07-10

Versions

How to Cite

Escobar-Arboleda, Y. A., & Velásquez-Upegui, E. P. (2020). Reconstruction and representation of the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teacher-trainees: journalistic information vs research report. Journal of Research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(16), 3-24. Retrieved from //rihumso.unlam.edu.ar/index.php/humanidades/article/view/166 (Original work published November 15, 2019)

Issue

No. 16 (2019)

Section

Social Communication

Copyright (c) 2019 Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui; Yonathan Alexander Escobar-Arboleda

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.

The authors that publish in this Journal accept the following terms: 

a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b. Authors are able to enter separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of this journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it inside a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. All the works published on this Journal are retrieved and safeguarded in the Institutional Repository of this University: Repositorio UNLaM

c. Authors are allowed and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges, as well as to enriching and enlarging the number quotations on the work published.