Violencia simbólica en el campo periodístico de Sonora, México

Abstract

The concept of symbolic violence refers to the set of symbolic strategies that, in a social field, promote its reproduction, favoring the groups that currently have the power. It is a mechanism whose effectiveness is based on the fact that both dominated and dominant share a series of beliefs regarding its field and its position in it. Based on the fact that in the case of Mexico, the power to determine the way to practice journalism is concentrated in business agents, public officials and political parties, while, in practice, the majority of reporters act as “stenographers of the power and sounding boards of political-partisan conflicts” (Márquez, 2012, p.107), in this article we identify the ways in which symbolic violence is expressed in that sphere, the representations through which it operates, as well as those to which it opposes.We worked with the thematic life story method, with a structural sample of thirteen newsreporters, taking advantage of the potential of this strategy to visualize aspects of the construction of individual identities in parallel with social ones. As a proposal, it is suggested that the counter-discourse of the reporters analyzed can be capitalized on new ways of thinking, teaching and practicing journalism.