News influence on our pictures of the world
The sexualization of women's image
Likewise, contexts of polarization can be exploited by external forces with the aim of exacerbating division and advancing an agenda of internal influence. In other countries, Russia or China have been observed and demonstrated to encourage the dispersion of disinformation through social networks.
We also classified the tweets into five categories for analysis: (A) true information, (B) misinformation, (C) disinformation, (D) pro-Mexican government tweets, (E) anti-Mexican government tweets, and (F) unverifiable. It is important to mention that both samples were reviewed and classified manually by a group of experts, through a peer review (double verification), to ensure the objectivity of this classification.
In the case of Russia, we found some activity by media such as ActualidadRT through favorable news about the Sputnik V vaccine (highlighting its efficacy). However, we found no evidence that the form of influence was through disinformation or propaganda.
How important are images in the news?
Importance of the photographic image
It is an indispensable element because it not only allows to contextualize the narrated event, but also to capture the moment and turn it into an archive for the memory. In addition, it is a vehicle of communication that reaches different people with its content.
How is the image of women treated in the media and advertising?
The image of women conveyed by the media (through the written press as well as radio and television) continues to be a stereotyped image of a woman that has little or nothing to do with her current social reality.
Women and their image
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The Image of Women in the Media
Benito Juárez was president of Mexico between 1858 and 1872 and led the country at a decisive moment in its history, when political and social institutions were changing to found a new system where the highest authority would be vested in the secular state and where each person could enjoy individual rights and freedoms, participate in decision making and see their demands represented in the form of government.
This process of change was difficult because of the work it took to build the foundations of the new institutions and also because of the resistance of broad sectors of the population who saw the reforms as a threat to their interests. Throughout this process, Benito Juárez acted as a leader who protected the conquests achieved by the liberal group and defended Mexico's sovereignty against the interventions of foreign powers.
Towards the city of Oaxaca, engraving, Taller de la Gráfica Popular. Image taken from the book El México de Benito Juárez, edition illustrated with engravings by Taller de la Gráfica Popular, Mexico, Editorial STYLO, 1957, p. 3.
Women in the media pdf
Therefore, the image of the nation based on a history, a culture, a landscape and national customs, disseminated by the illustrated press, were those that ended up drawing in the social imaginary, the idea of a national community distinct and differentiated from others.[16] Following Tomás Pérez Vejo, it can be said that the role of the illustrated press, towards the middle of the nineteenth century, was to consolidate a distinctive image of the Mexican, in the process of invention of the nation. Consequently, it played a significant role in the shaping of Mexican identity.
In 1849, El Tío Nonilla appeared, a newspaper of caricatures characterized by radical ideas against religious society and opposed to the hypocritical customs of the time. The cartoons ridiculed the friars, ironized against the monarchist yearnings of the conservatives and mocked Santa Anna's cabinet.[21] But it was after the Constitution of 1857 when the genre of political cartoons reached its maximum splendor as successive governments had to agree to free expression through freedom of the press.[22] The political cartoons of 1857 were the first to be published.
