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Media, Fear of Crime, and Authority: Focus Groups in Lima (Perú)

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Communication and Smart Technologies (ICOMTA 2021)

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Abstract

Lima’s news agenda focuses on the media’s exposure and coverage of crime. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between news consumption, fear of crime, and trust in authority. To this end, twelve focus group discussions were conducted with residents of Lima. The findings revealed significant vicarious fear: respondents admitted to feeling greater fear for their children and other relatives as they remembered recent news reports. Additionally, the focus groups related news consumption to a paucity of trust in authority and evidenced a subjective consonance with their environment.

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    Socioeconomic levels (SES) are categories formulated by the Peruvian Association of Market Intelligence Companies (APEIM), an entity that groups together market research and public opinion pollsters in Peru. Socioeconomic levels in Peru encompass five levels: A, B, C, D, E; SES A owns the most resources and the SES E has the least resources.

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  1. Universidad de Lima, Lima, Perú

    Lilian Kanashiro

  2. Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Lucía Dammert

  3. GRADE, Lima, Perú

    Wilson Hernández

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  2. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

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  3. University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Paulo Carlos López-López

  4. Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

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Kanashiro, L., Dammert, L., Hernández, W. (2022). Media, Fear of Crime, and Authority: Focus Groups in Lima (Perú). In: Rocha, Á., Barredo, D., López-López, P.C., Puentes-Rivera, I. (eds) Communication and Smart Technologies. ICOMTA 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 259. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5792-4_35

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