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Alejandro Medina Fuentes
UANL / Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Mexico
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Carlos Muñiz
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Mexico
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9021-8198
Biography
Vol 4 No 16 (2022): Political Economy of Communication and Cultural Studies | Poverty, Hunger and Migration, Research articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ricd.4.16.8404
Submitted: 14-04-2022 Accepted: 03-06-2022 Published: 06-07-2022
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Abstract

There is ample evidence of the ability of the media to influence public opinion on social problems, such as poverty. The existence of this phenomenon has usually been explained either from an individualistic approach - poverty is viewed as a situation linked to bad decisions made by people in this situation - or a structuralist approach - it is considered that poverty originates in the fundamental political, economic and social conditions of the environment. Mexico has about half of the population living in poverty or extreme poverty, which makes it very important to study the frames used by the media on this issue. To do this, 663 news items on poverty published in 2019 by four of the newspapers with the largest national circulation are analyzed. The presence of generic and two specific frameworks related to the individualist or structuralist approach to poverty were analyzed. The results show a preponderance of the structuralist approach, which is accentuated when the source used to construct the article is the government source.