Representaciones polarizadoras de niños en el mundo del narco y lo narco en la prensa

Abstract

The text shows some polarizing positions of negative cuts present in the representations handled by Mexican jounalists in their informative notes on a child hitman arrested in 2010 by members of the Mexican army and a teenage youtuber murdered in 2017, presumably on the orders of a drug trafficking leader, crystallized on certain ideas that they try to convey to their readers. For this, several columns published essentially in two newspapers of national circulation are taken as sources, which were interpreted in the light of cultural sociology. Among the main findings identified, the research highlights the fact that regardless of the ways in which journalists represented the child and youth mentioned, all of them jumped towards their negative positions. It is concluded, among other things, that, by reproducing positions of this type in national newspapers, communicators can induce stigmatization of the most vulnerable sectors.