Social representations of violence: Fernando Báez´s case through a lexical metrical analysis of Facebook digital press

Authors

  • María Estela Ortega Rubí Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IINSO) Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)
  • Gustavo Adolfo Liloff Dirección General de Cultura y Educación

Keywords:

representaciones sociales, violencia, jóvenes, tragedia, asesinato

Abstract

The purpose of our work is to identify the social representations of violence, from the analysis of the digital press about Fernando Baéz’s death (Argentina), as well as the explanation attributed to it. The approach used is case study, with a quantitative-qualitative sequential explanatory design. The sample consisted of 694 direct comments (540 women and 154 men), taken from the Facebook website of Página 12 newspaper. Different representational organizations are explained depending on the concerned subject’s gender. For men, violence arises from the feeling of hatred among social classes, reinforced by family environment and by youths’ membership groups, and this violent act is classified as a tragedy. For women, violence emerges as a racist expression reinforced by the father figure, in which the “other” becomes a target or victim. A violent act is not a tragedy (an inevitable situation), but it rather becomes murder (an avoidable situation).

Author Biographies

María Estela Ortega Rubí, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IINSO) Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)

Doctora en Psicología Social (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Paris, Francia). Docente investigadora en el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales – Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey – México. Coordinador General de la Red Nacional de investigadores en Representaciones  Sociales, RENIRS y del Centro Mexicano para el Estudio de las Representaciones Sociales, CEMERS. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadoresde 2002 – 2019, México.

Gustavo Adolfo Liloff, Dirección General de Cultura y Educación

Doctor en Ciencia de la Educación. Magister en Educación (Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires Argentina). Ex becario Naciones Unidas. Ex becario Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation – Jerusalén, Israel. Docente en diferentes niveles en la Dirección General de Cultura y Educación, Buenos Aires.

Published

2020-07-10 — Updated on 2020-07-15

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How to Cite

Ortega Rubí, M. E., & Liloff, G. A. (2020). Social representations of violence: Fernando Báez´s case through a lexical metrical analysis of Facebook digital press. Journal of Research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, (17), 63-85. Retrieved from //rihumso.unlam.edu.ar/index.php/humanidades/article/view/196 (Original work published July 10, 2020)

Issue

No. 17 (2020)

Section

Social Communication

Copyright (c) 2020 María Estela Ortega Rubí, Gustavo Adolfo Liloff

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