“The Unbearable Lightness of Speech”. Epistemological Ruses in the Mediatic Construction of Narco-Violence
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There are peculiar characteristics in the conditions under which the drug-related violence is described in contemporary Mexico. When the speeches that shape the massive social perception of such phenomena are observed, it is possible to identify the potential that is concentrated by television. In this article, the kind of rhetoric that prevails in the following formats is analyzed. They deal with narco-world from different points of observation: 1) the television space that make to know the official position of the government (Press Conferences); 2) the space that simply “gives” the news about episodes of high impact (News); 3) the space dedicated to investigative journalism; 4) the recreational space, appealing to the fiction based on the history of famous drug cartels and their kingpins biography (narco-tv). For all cases, three epistemological assumptions are analyzed: (individualization, substantiation and explanatory polarization.
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Christiansen, María Lujan. “‘The Unbearable Lightness of Speech’. Epistemological Ruses in the Mediatic Construction of Narco-Violence”. Mitologías hoy, 2016, vol.VOL 14, pp. 25-40, https://raco.cat/index.php/mitologias/article/view/315897.
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