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MURILLO SANDOVAL, Sandra Leticia  e  ESCALA RABADAN, Luis. Ugliness, otherness and representation of the Latino population in the United States in Ugly Betty's television discourse. Comun. soc [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.113-134. ISSN 0188-252X.

This work examines the transformations of the media constructions of the Latino population made in the television series Ugly Betty through a sociological and semiotic approach. Using sociological and semiotic approaches, it is concluded that such transformation constitutes an important difference in regard to the media genres involved, as well as a more complex cultural portrayal of such population in American society.

Palavras-chave : Identity and otherness; media representations of Latinos; television discourse; Semiotics of television; media analysis.