Gender-Based Violence and Ways to Name it: A Review of the Press from the Violence Against Women in the Caribbean Region in Colombia

Abstract

This paper presents the findings of the monitoring carried out at the articles published by the newspaper El Heraldo de Barranquilla (Colombia), where violent acts against women are recorded in 2011. The interest arises from the way cases are presented in the press, under the assumption of responsibility of the media in the construction and dissemination of opinion and information and its relationship to social tolerance for gender-based violence. From this, some features are set, as a trend, but not before laying some thoughts on the treatment of information and its impact on culture and the construction of imaginary in favor of gender equity in the press.