Violence in the Media, the Media in Violence. Review and Critical Analysis of Studies on Mass Media and Violence in Latin America, 1998-2005.
The map found in this book, systematically delineated by Jorge Iván Bonilla and Camilo Andrés Tamayo, presents the paths along which Latin American research on the relations between communication and violence has traveled over the past eight years. In doing so, one can see the connections between this particular research and the more general trends in communication research on the continent, but it also reveals the links between these studies and a dramatically changing context in which various forms of violence play a leading role. The reader who goes through the pages of this book will find that the "place" of all the events narrated is Latin America, although that specific place belongs to a world in which not only violent echoes are felt (the war on terrorism, armed conflicts, ethnic massacres), but many of those echoes have direct resonance in the daily lives of Latin Americans, such as the violence stemming from drug trafficking. This book is, at once, necessary and valuable.
Referenced in events
- Transformation into hikers' weapons
- Death of Colombian Terrorist Henry Bladimir Delgado Salazar
- Decrease in coca leaf price in Alto Huallaga
- Capture of Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera in Colombia
- Arrest of Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera, drug trafficker
- Drug trafficker Abelardo Cachique Rivera arrested in Colombia