SI N° 12 | 2024
Medios de comunicación y violencias intrafamiliares
The media and domestic violence

There's no denying that the media, violence and otherness are deeply intertwined. In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion in hate speech against the most diverse groups and minorities. The emergence of the new electronic media and, in particular, social networks, has given individuals a space - mainly due to the authoritarian structure of certain societies - that has not reinforced the democratization of information (although it does make it possible), but has led to a tendency to replace the public space of opinion with the private space, in this case, by the public dissemination of likes, dislikes, insults, slander and defamation. The violence to which various groups and minorities, such as women, black people, natives, immigrants and LGBTQIA+ people, are subjected on a daily basis therefore reveals cruel societies that find in voices, bodies and weapons an unfettered path.

We must therefore ask ourselves how the media can responsibly and effectively give visibility to domestic violence in our countries so that these societies can begin to meet the challenge of eradicating domestic violence.