Squirting kids? Media discourse and the criminalization of poverty

Abstract

The objective of this article is to reflect the discursive dimension of the national media that criminalizes young people from impoverished sectors, and the influence it exerts on the construction of the subjectivities of society, between the years 2014 and 2019.

We know that both the content of media discourse and the way in which said content is presented build thought formats that are configured as truth systems that elaborate and condition people's subjectivities, presenting effects in the ways of doing, feeling and to think that they will influence the way in which society relates to the different groups that make it up(Arito, 2018).

That is to say, these discourses will condition the experience of the knowing subject, hinder the manifestation of the one who is being known, which will prevent the full use of his identity and the knowledge of it by the one who knows (Vasilachis, 2003).

Thus, if said discourse aims to criminalize poverty, providing a negative image of said sector, it is most probable that the relations that are established are asymmetric and of class differentiation/subordination.