Encuadres de la violencia de género en la prensa escrita y digital, nacional y regionalLa Verdad, La Opinión, El Mundo y El Pais desde la teoría del Framing (2005-2010)

Abstract

Summary Ana Orante's murder in 1997 marked a milestone in the treatment of the gender violence in the mass media. Orantes went to a Canal Sur TV programme to report her experience and within days, her ex husband killed her. The media made repercussion of the declarations that this woman had made few days before. The Media helps victims, associations and feminists to raise public awareness on this matter. In 2004 the Organic Law of Measures of Integral Protection against Gender Violence was approved, in 2007 the Law of Measures of Prevention and Protection against Gender Violence and in 2010 The gender Violence had its reflection on the General Law of Audio Visual Communication. It has been analysed frames of gender violence in written and digital press, national and regional. In particular, 1491 pieces of news from newspapers such as La Verdad, La Opinión, El Mundo and El País, from 2005 to 2010, from the Theory of Framing. The methodology used is the one used in Social Sciences applied to Documentation Sciences. An analytical, descriptive and informative methodology based in contents analysis an it expects to be a method to be used in different knowledge fields such as Sociology or Psychology. Our starting methodology has been positively answered. The specific definition of gender violence in Media from cultural and cognitive view to interpret reality that brings the Theory of Framing, makes us wonder whether there is a change on the focus of this sort of information from the journalist's side. As far as we have been able to reach, among others, the main target of our thesis is the analysis of the construction of the social image about gender violence in Spanish written and on-line press, either national or regional, from the Theory of Framing. The results show clearly a change of trend in the issues raised. Finally, some proposals for improvement are shown. Keywords: Theory of Framing, framing, gender violence, violence against women, domestic violence, sexist violence, abuse, ill-treatment, gender studies, Media, press.