Abstract

BROWNE, Rodrigo; SILVA, Víctor  and  BAESSOLO, Ricardo. Periodismo intercultural: Representación peruana y boliviana en la prensa chilena. Comunicar [online]. 2010, vol.18, n.35, pp.85-93. ISSN 1988-3293.

This article examines the processes through which the nationwide press generates and represents the cultural discourses of two of the most controversial migrant groups coexisting nowadays in Chile: Peruvians and Bolivians. The representation that the news media carry out regarding the studied cultures strongly influences the imaginaries of the Chilean audiences. That calls for special concern so as to propose the necessary spaces for intercultural exchange as much in the media as in the social institutions. These spaces will be the ones in which communication studies and intercultural journalism can merge, in order to offer meeting and communication alternatives between culturally different groups. The principal goal of this research study is to understand how, in the processes of social construction of reality through the news media, the Peruvian and Bolivian «discourses of difference» are represented in Chile. The methodology employed to validate such a proposal is the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) applied to the news in «La Cuarta» and «Las Últimas Noticias» newspapers, belonging to the press groups with the greatest circulation in the country: the consortia Copesa y El Mercurio. The results of the research allow us to conclude that these press media represent realities which tend to marginalise the «migrant other», through the reinforcement of identity imaginaries constructed upon the frontier relationships among the three nation-states.

Keywords : Social Construction of Reality; Culture; Identity and Discourse of Difference.

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