Terrorismo mediáticoincidencia del tratamiento mediático en la imagen del menor pandillero en Honduras

Abstract

The current social construction of fear is constituted as an emerging reality that is part of the daily life of the Hondurans. And it is that, juvenile delinquency present through the participation of the child in his criminal activities, not only does it arouse a sense of insecurity that is restined by media treatment, but also demands the implementation of more repressive measures on the criminal action of child offender. The objective of this article lies in the analysis of media treatment, and how it influences social perception about child in the gangs; for this purpose, it is based on a documentary review, which discusses in a descriptive and interpretative way the aspects binding on the public hearing generated by social media, on which a sensationalist discourse is manifested with a stigmatizing effect children residing in marginalized areas controlled by the maras. The search and analysis of systematized information suggests that the media reinforces the image of a juvenile offender, as well as the intrusion of the phenomenon of post-truth, understood as a distorted reality that provoques social reproach. Definitely the results found suggest that the media behaves like a generator of public opinion with a stigmatizing nuance about the child gang members.