Abstract

PENALVA, Clemente  and  LA PARRA, Daniel. Comunicación de masas y violencia estructural. Convergencia [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.46, pp.17-50. ISSN 2448-5799.

This paper connects two dimensions of violence present in the Peace Research Studies. From Galtung's known classification, in this essay we connect two types of violence: the structural (exclusion, inequality) and the cultural (or legitimization of the violence). From the overlapping of three spheres of communicative exclusion with three models which approach the inequality in communication, we obtain the lines of investigation we propose for the study of the inequality in the communicative area. It is a theoretical reflection that pays attention to the different methodologies used in the study of the communicative phenomenon and their usefulness for the study of inequality in the cultural area.

Keywords : inequality; mass communication; cultural violence; structural violence; development.