VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN ROMANIAN MEDIA
VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN ROMANIAN MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: To better understand the ways in which media images may be forming our understanding of violence against children, this study analyzed portrayals of it in news and articles in the specific case of Romanian media. In presenting the acts of violence against children in 2014 the Romanian newspapers tend to follow the same “editorial logic”: the appeal to the Police as the “primary definer” of the violent situation, the stress put on the dramatic and personalized characteristics of a violent event involving children, the mediatisation of the individual (and not the collective) actors in such acts. By increasing our understanding of how violence against children is portrayed in news media, researchers can now turn to studies that examine the effects of this coverage and its implications for public and policy support.

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