El imaginario social detrás de la trata en los medios de comunicación.

Media's Social Image and Human Trafficking Discourse.

HUMAN trafficking; CRIME & the press; MASS media; ECUADORIAN politics & government; SOCIAL problems; CRIME in mass media; SOCIAL history

La noticia mediática que habla sobre la trata de personas es el resultado de la coincidencia de un discurso que habita y se reproduce sistemáticamente desde el Estado, los medios y la población, en un círculo vicioso que impide la consecución de una visibilización del problema como de atención prioritaria pública y desde una complejidad que se circunscribe a problemas principalmente sociales, culturales y económicos de las poblaciones expulsoras, receptoras y de tránsito como el Ecuador. Hoy en día nos enfrentamos a medios de comunicación que, como directos interlocutores del conocimiento social, construyen y deconstruyen el imaginario social alrededor de la trata de personas desde coberturas periodísticas seguritistas, socorristas y melodramáticas que resultan restringidas ante una realidad tan compleja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The news media that refers to human trafficking is merely the result of the coincidence of a speech that lives and reproduces systematically from the state, the media and the public, in a vicious cycle that prevents to achieve a firm visibility of the problem as a public priority and a combination of complex social, cultural and economic structural problems of the victim's sending, receiving and transit countries such as Ecuador. Today, we face a media that, as a direct interlocutor of social knowledge, is able to construct and deconstruct the social imaginary around human trafficking based on an incidental perspective given by poor news' coverage characterized by a restricted comprehension of such a complex reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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