La criminalización mediática en los discursos sobre la escuela argentina

Abstract

This article presents an exploratory study that analyzes media criminalization in speeches on the episodes of violence in schools in Argentina, in the period 1993-2011. Given the characteristics of the object of inquiry, the methodological approach was qualitative and the information is analyzed in the framework of socio-educational  discourse analysis. Among the results, we observed that in the presentation of the episodes, the students are marked as responsible for situations of violence, punitive solutions are proposed and described the school as incapable of resolving the conflicts already mentioned. The communication strategies used by the press agree in naturalizing the actions of the security forces. We conclude that the media criminalisation is part of a dynamic of social stigmatization. For its originality, this study constitutes a precedent for future inquiries on media representations of the school space.