{"title":"Miedo a los otros. Representaciones de la frontera México-Estados Unidos y COVID-19 en medios digitales","authors":"Hugo Méndez Fierros, Erika Paola Reyes Piñuelas","doi":"10.21670/REF.2101064","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolLa pandemia por COVID-19 genero transformaciones en distintos ambitos de la vida humana, y la comunicacion sociodigital es central para su comprension. Los usuarios que publican comentarios en medios y redes aportan elementos para la construccion social de la realidad. El objetivo fue interpretar, mediante analisis de contenido, representaciones de 1303 usuarios de cuatro medios transfronterizos de Baja California, Mexico, y California, EUA, en Facebook, YouTube y paginas web, sobre el COVID-19 y las restricciones para cruzar la frontera. El cierre de la frontera y el COVID-19 constituyen un fenomeno social emergente y son escasas las investigaciones previas, lo cual represento una limitacion. Al final se encontro que las representaciones alimentadas por desinformacion proyectaron miedo a los otros; los comentarios reflejan uso mayoritario de informacion no verificada, odio y atribucion de culpa por contagio a los otros. La frontera fue representada como intersticio de entrecruzamientos e interdependencia economica, cultural, politica, ambiental y sanitaria. EnglishThe COVID-19 pandemic generated transformations in different areas of human life and socio-digital communication is central to its understanding. Users who post comments in the media and networks contribute elements to the social construction of reality. The objective was to interpret, through content analysis, representations of 1303 users of four cross-border media from Baja California, Mexico, and California, USA, on Facebook, YouTube and web pages, about COVID-19 and the restrictions to cross the border. The closure of the border and COVID-19 constitute an emerging social phenomenon and previous research studies are scarce, which represented a limitation. In the end, the misinformation-fueled representations were found to project fear onto others; the comments reflect the majority use of unverified information, hatred and attribution of blame for contagion to others. The border was represented as an interstice of intersections and economic, cultural, political, environmental and health interdependence.","PeriodicalId":43706,"journal":{"name":"Estudios Fronterizos","volume":"22 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Estudios Fronterizos","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21670/REF.2101064","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolLa pandemia por COVID-19 genero transformaciones en distintos ambitos de la vida humana, y la comunicacion sociodigital es central para su comprension. Los usuarios que publican comentarios en medios y redes aportan elementos para la construccion social de la realidad. El objetivo fue interpretar, mediante analisis de contenido, representaciones de 1303 usuarios de cuatro medios transfronterizos de Baja California, Mexico, y California, EUA, en Facebook, YouTube y paginas web, sobre el COVID-19 y las restricciones para cruzar la frontera. El cierre de la frontera y el COVID-19 constituyen un fenomeno social emergente y son escasas las investigaciones previas, lo cual represento una limitacion. Al final se encontro que las representaciones alimentadas por desinformacion proyectaron miedo a los otros; los comentarios reflejan uso mayoritario de informacion no verificada, odio y atribucion de culpa por contagio a los otros. La frontera fue representada como intersticio de entrecruzamientos e interdependencia economica, cultural, politica, ambiental y sanitaria. EnglishThe COVID-19 pandemic generated transformations in different areas of human life and socio-digital communication is central to its understanding. Users who post comments in the media and networks contribute elements to the social construction of reality. The objective was to interpret, through content analysis, representations of 1303 users of four cross-border media from Baja California, Mexico, and California, USA, on Facebook, YouTube and web pages, about COVID-19 and the restrictions to cross the border. The closure of the border and COVID-19 constitute an emerging social phenomenon and previous research studies are scarce, which represented a limitation. In the end, the misinformation-fueled representations were found to project fear onto others; the comments reflect the majority use of unverified information, hatred and attribution of blame for contagion to others. The border was represented as an interstice of intersections and economic, cultural, political, environmental and health interdependence.