El tratamiento noticioso de la violencia de género en medios de comunicación ecuatorianos: Caso diario el Universo y Wambra EC

Abstract

Gender violence is a reality that every year affects more than a hundred women of different ages around the world, becoming a social-structural phenomenon that must be approached from different perspectives: judicial, social, psychological and media; For this reason, it is important to raise awareness about this type of problem and to observe the way in which the media are dealing with this type of issue that, through their discourses, constitutes an important role in the processes of acculturation and vision of the world, at the same time that they are in charge of distributing in a general way the values and images about real life situations that could be normalized. Therefore, the purpose of this research work is to observe the news treatment of gender violence that is carried out in the management of the Ecuadorian media on their platforms. The selected media outlets Diario El Universo and Wambra Ec, through the content analysis technique, were observed during the months