Representación del femicidio en la prensa ecuatoriana. Estudio desde la teoría del framing

Abstract

Abstract:News about femicides occupy more and more space in the media. Since the approval of the Organic Integral Penal Code and the typification of femicide (August 4, 2014), the numbers of violent deaths of women at the hands of their husbands, partners, parents, and others, have multiplied, monopolizing the attention of the media and especially of their audiences, who guided by the morbid visual content and the act of femicide, give it greater relevance than other cases. This research proposes the analysis of the discursive framing of the newspapers: El Comercio and El Universo in the representation of femicide, taking as a case study the femicide of Diana Carolina Ramírez Reyes in 2019. For this research, a mixed methodology has been proposed, focused on identifying the ideas, stereotypes and value judgments present in the informative treatment. Among the relevant findings, it has been identified that El Comercio is more linear when dealing with issues related to crime while El Universo spectacularizes these issues specifically stereotyping its victim and perpetrator.