Enfoque interseccional en un protocolo para el análisis del cubrimiento periodístico de feminicidios

Maria Terezinha da Silva; Daiane Bertasso Ribeiro

doi:10.5209/infe.86374

Maria Terezinha da Silva Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7427-9364
Daiane Bertasso Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-3709

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/infe.86374

Keywords: journalism, feminicide, public problem, intersectionality, gender-based violence, violence against women

Abstract

Introduction and objetive.

The article is based on the assumption that violence against women - which can lead to feminicides - is a public problem that requires state policies to be thought of from an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 2004; Collins and Bilge, 2021). From this perspective, our objective is to communicate a protocol for journalistic coverage of femicides. Methodology. Based on theoretical and empirical readings on femicide and gender studies from an intersectional perspective, we propose a protocol for analysing the coverage of femicides, composed of seven axes of reading. Six of them are related to specific crimes reported in the press and aim to identify information on: (1) the medium, materiality and location; (2) the crime; (3) the victim; (4) the aggressor; (5) the sources of information; and (6) sexual stratification. The seventh axis refers to the reading of (7) general news items, not related to specific cases, but which address the issue of feminicide, questioning aspects that cross the other axes, mainly whether violence against women is discussed as a public problem and whether there are identifiable elements of intersectional markers.Results and conclusions. The analysis allows us to perceive the usefulness of the protocol in the search for intersectional social markers. The protocol makes it possible to analyze the limits of news coverage with respect to the overlapping of violence and oppression in cases of femicide. At the same time, it allows us to see potentially relevant aspects for a more adequate treatment of the topic by the press.

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Author Biographies

Maria Terezinha da Silva, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil

Professeur, Department of Journalism, Center for Communication and Expression, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Subjects taught: Journalistic Writing IV, Theory of Journalism, Public Communication, Community Journalism. Professor in the Master's and Doctoral Programs in Journalism at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Subjects: Journalism, Society and Public Space; Journalism, events and public problems.

Degree in Journalism, Master in Education (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/Brazil) and PhD in Communication (Université Paris Nanterre/France and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil - thesis in co-supervision). Postdoctoral at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

She was vice-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program (Master and PhD) in Journalism at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. She coordinates the Transverso Research Group - Studies in Journalism, Public Interest and Criticism at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. She conducts research and directs master's and doctoral theses on the analysis of journalistic coverage of events and public problems, such as femicides and gender violence; the construction of representations and the debate on the rights of various social groups (women, immigrants, people with disabilities, etc.) in the media.

Daiane Bertasso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil

Professeur, Department of Journalism and Graduate Program in Journalism, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Subjects taught: Communication in Organizations; Theory of Journalism; Theories of Communication; Journalism, Identity, Diversity and Gender (undergraduate); Methodology, and Discourse Studies (graduate).

Degree in Journalism and specialist in Communication Processes Management (Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Master in Media Communication (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil), and PhD in Communication (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

One of the leaders of the research group Transverso - Estudos em Jornalismo, Interesse Público e Crítica at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. She conducts research and directs undergraduate, Master's and doctoral theses about magazine journalism, communication in organizations, analysis of the production of meaning in journalistic discourse, gender studies and journalism with a gender perspective.

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