Los actores sociales de la pobreza en la prensa argentina

Abstract

This article is part of a more general research project that attempts to describe what it means to be poor in Argentina today, in other words, what dos it imply to belong to this category in the globalized Argentina. The phase of the analysis of our research that we present here, focuses on the way in which poor people become actors of material process in mass media: instead of being seen as isolated poor people, they become “groups of ” (workers, unemployed, piqueteros). In order to show this process, we analyse the Clarín’s newspaper version of a social conflict that took place in June 2001 in General Mosconi (Salta). The selection of the conflict and the newspaper are not arbitrary: On the one hand, Mosconi has been one of the places where more road blockings, as a mean of protest took place, and it is the site where national and local governments repression was more violent. On the other hand, Clarín is the newspaper with the highest readership in Argentina.