‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI:10.1177/09579265221117934
Jamie A. Thomas
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Explicit images and descriptions of violent death are typical within the Mexican media landscape, and especially within the context of the War on Drugs. Here, I share observations of my encounters with these media, particularly television narcotelenovelas and tabloids. I also center the voices of people with firsthand experience of the narcoscape in Mexico City and Ciudad Juárez, including Mrs. Luz María Dávila, the mother of two youths slain in a 2010 drug cartel-directed massacre. Across the two main sites of this study, a university seminar and a public town hall meeting, a professor and a self-politicized mother each question the role of the media in upholding investments in violence within news and entertainment. As the professor asks, ‘News are not simply news, right?’ These insights invite reflection on the public’s participation as spectator-voyeurs in the more than 105,000 Mexican deaths facilitated by cross-border trade in illicit narcotics to-date. The interactional data also suggest effective ways of encouraging critical media analysis in and beyond university settings.
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“Noticias no son Noticias,?no?”:墨西哥对媒体暴力和禁毒战争的看法
暴力死亡的形象和描述在墨西哥媒体界是典型的,尤其是在禁毒战争的背景下。在这里,我分享我与这些媒体,特别是电视毒枭和小报的接触。我还集中关注了对墨西哥城和华雷斯城毒枭有亲身经历的人的声音,其中包括卢兹·玛丽亚·达维拉夫人,她是2010年贩毒集团指挥的大屠杀中两名年轻人的母亲。在这项研究的两个主要地点,一个是大学研讨会,另一个是公众市政厅会议,一位教授和一位自我政治化的母亲分别质疑媒体在支持新闻和娱乐中的暴力投资方面的作用。正如教授所问:“新闻不仅仅是新闻,对吧?”这些见解引发了人们对公众作为旁观者偷窥者参与迄今为止由非法麻醉品跨境贸易促成的105000多起墨西哥死亡事件的反思。互动数据还提出了在大学内外鼓励批判性媒体分析的有效方法。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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