Efectos de las noticias sobre violencia en el clima social universitario: estudiantes de comunicación Utmach

Abstract

In this research work, the central premise was to know what the effects of the consumption of red chronicle news are on the social climate within the classrooms of the Communication Career, at the Technical University of Machala. To delimit and promote the specification within what was studied, five news items were collected from the media MP Noticias disseminated through the social network Telegram, in which this digital channel from the province of El Oro, Ecuador, shares information with its audience. The main question to be resolved was: how does the consumption of violent news disseminated on the Telegram platform, specifically on the media channel MP Noticias, affect communication students at UTMACH, individually and collectively? The information collection techniques characterized the present study with a mixed approach methodology, applying three research instruments: bibliographic review, questionnaire questions to interview specialists in the area of ​​psychology and pedagogy; finally, focus group form applied to a sample selected by convenience, from the target group. The main results denoted an iota of resilience in terms of the effect of frequent exposure to news that covers topics of violence and is accompanied by explicit visual elements. Thanks to the documentary research and the responses of the interviewees, it was stated that there is a consequence on the social climate (interpersonal communication, language, perception of security) if students are constantly exposed to visual elements about violence in red chronicle news; However, during the application of the focus group technical sheet, 75% of those interviewed responded that seeing this type of information daily does not alter their behavior, therefore, it does not influence the intraclass social climate.