Media In Mexico Research Articles

Social Media Use and Fear of Missing out: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Junior High Students from Western Mexico.

The increased use of social media in Mexico has given rise to the "fear of missing out" (FoMO) phenomenon, especially among adolescents. This study aimed to measure the extent of FoMO among junior high school students in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Mexico, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, this study explored the association between FoMO levels and demographic characteristics, as well as the type and frequency of social media use. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from November 2021 to January 2022 in four junior high schools. A total of 1264 students (656 females and 608 males) aged 11-16 years completed the Fear of Missing Out Scale, adapted to the Mexican context. Data on demographics, social media usage, and school shifts were collected. Statistical analyses were performed using t-tests, ANOVA, and correlation coefficients. The mean FoMO score was 1.79 ± 0.64, with higher scores observed in females (p < 0.001) and students attending morning shifts (p = 0.001). Significant associations were found between higher FoMO scores and the use of social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest (p < 0.001 for each). The most frequently used social media platforms were WhatsApp (1093), TikTok (828), and Instagram (583). Participants who used social media all week exhibited significantly higher FoMO scores than those who used it only on weekends (p < 0.001). FoMO is a significant phenomenon among junior high school students in Guadalajara, Mexico, particularly among females and those who use multiple social media platforms. The findings suggest a need for interventions to manage social media use and mitigate FoMO-related negative health outcomes in this population.

Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

Abstract At the crossroads of scholarship scrutinizing digital religion and pilgrimage, this article analyzes the use of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram by devotees of Our Lady of Juquila, a Marian image in Oaxaca, Mexico. It combines the close reading of content and descriptive online ethnography with web scraping and data analysis. The article sketches these platforms’ role in pious expression, virtual community building, pilgrimage group communication, and devotional marketing, tracking closely the intertwining of religion and commerce, particularly religious tourism promotion. The data reveal that Facebook serves as the most popular platform for Juquila’s devotees, thanks to its open, pro-sharing design and flexibility regarding group formation. As a result, it has become the essential hub of devotee expression. YouTube, thanks to its particular affordances, has become an ideal niche for narrating travel to Juquila’s shrine and a showcase of the networked nature of devotion as users borrow tools, tropes, and expressive techniques from many sources, religious and secular. Instagram is the least popular platform among devotees because its design is less open and amenable to group communication. It does, however, facilitate both smaller, more intimate community formation, as well as shallow but significant community building on popular public pages run by religious tourism promoters hosting attractive, easily sharable, free stockpiles of images, memes, and devotional slogans. In the end, social media use appears to be stoking pilgrimage in Mexico and setting the stage for significant cultural change in the future as new tools, emerging shared devotional aesthetics, and media logics reshape religious expression and devotee communication. It is also becoming an unparalleled historical archive of popular religious culture.

Motivations behind wild animal consumption in social media in Mexico: A case study

Abstract Wildlife trade is a worldwide threat to biodiversity. It is a complex problem, and to deal with it, one must analyse its constituting factors, some of which are specific to certain geographic areas. Although Mexican laws have prohibited selling wild products, Mexico is still both a source and consumer of exotic wildlife; however, there is limited data on why people participate in this type of trade. This paper aims to understand people's motivations for participating in the wildlife trade. 192 surveys on a population segment unrelated to it and 30 in‐depth interviews were performed to determine the patterns of wildlife trade in Mexico. Finally, we performed two in‐person interviews with collectors of large‐scale animals. The outcomes demonstrated that Facebook was the social media showing more wildlife content. Most participants were aware of the diverse impacts of the animal trade, as well as, that offering, buying and having certain animals was a crime but were assuaged due to common knowledge that authorities do not investigate social media. Finally, based on the findings from the in‐person interviews, it was observed that the individuals engaged in heavy trafficking believed that their actions were altruistic in nature. We concluded that the primary motivations for wildlife trade in Mexico were economic status and prestige within their social groups. In that order, our study is a pioneering attempt to determine motivations in Mexico, which could be a basis for future regional studies. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico

Previous studies found a tendency for negative representations of social movements in the media in the so-called ‘protest paradigm’. This work proposes a methodology using the paradigm as a framework and operationalizing its characteristics into neutral variables: emphasis, prominence, legitimacy, and tone. In addition, the political elite-media relationship is included as an analytical dimension to better understand the factors that produce media representations of social movements. The empirical focus is the representation of the movement against femicide in three Mexican national news outlets with different political leanings, from 2014 to 2017, gathering N = 865 news articles. The articles were coded using the qualitative content analysis technique. Each variable was coded to measure the representation of the movement and the authorities. The results show that the detriment to one actor’s legitimacy can benefit the other’s representation, suggesting an interdependent system formed by the political elite, the media, and the social movements.

Political clientelism and print media in Mexico: the reduction of the government advertising budget as a catalyst in the change of editorial line in the main newspapers of the country

A partir de la reducción del presupuesto gubernamental en materia de publicidad oficial, distintos diarios en México, que solían tener una postura editorial leal al gobierno en turno, decidieron tomar otra dirección, comenzando a ejercer un trabajo periodístico crítico y de denuncia tanto hacia la figura presidencial como a personajes del partido político establecido en el poder, Morena. Las históricas prácticas clientelares, acompañadas de la compren-sión sobre la forma en la que los medios de comunicación impresos se han relacionado con el aparato gubernamental en México, funcionan como eje para argumentar cómo la cancelación o mutación de las mismas ha hecho que diarios como El Universal, Excelsior o Reforma, ahora se asuman como contrapesos al poder político. En tanto, el ensayo funge como una aproxi-mación contextual y teórica sobre cómo se podría abordar el fenómeno de forma empírica.

Violence, Affect, and Time-Based Media in Mexico, 2010–2019

This essay examines what affect studies can contribute to the analysis of violence and audiovisual media in twenty-first-century Mexico, paying particular attention to the temporal nature of violence and of time-based media. Does the photo of a dead child and her father on the Mexico-US border, as seen on the front page of a newspaper, allow viewers to perceive the slow violence of neoliberal economies and contemporary immigration policies? Or does it merely encourage shallow cries of pity? Given today’s saturated and vertiginously paced mediascape, do feature films have any role to play in encouraging audiences to viscerally recognise the duration and weight of state repression? In order to adequately analyse the complex sensorial dynamics of audiovisual media, this essay begins by proposing a tripartite conceptual framework that recognises multiple and inter-related forms of violence, overlaid audiovisual economies, and the contemporary scopic regime. The essay then deploys this framework in a comparison of the sensorial engagements of two recent films: Desierto (Jonas Cuarón, 2015) and Ayotzinapa, el paso de la tortuga (Enrique García Meza, 2017).

Medios LGBT+ en internet: experiencias de comunicación e información en México

Two digital LGBT+ media in Mexico are analyzed to understand the implications of their operation and their articulation with the informational and social needs of sex-gender populations. It starts from the communicational perspective to conceptualize these projects as exercises in technological appropriation but highlighting their empirical intersections with other analytical frameworks. Through the method of systematizing the experience, the trajectories of ANODIS and Seis Franjas Mx have been recovered; through semi-structured interviews conducted with their co-founders in February 2022, the reasons, horizons and challenges that these projects have faced are analyzed. The results show that the lack of LGBT+ content and representations in the media motivate the creation of these projects, which articulate a sense of collaboration and sociality with other users belonging to sex-gender communities. In addition, the people participating in these projects are part of the LGBT+ populations, becoming them producers and consumers of information that claim the gender-identity dimension in the content. Likewise, these initiatives are specified in the youth stage of their co-founders, which refers to rethinking the role of LGBT+ youth in the new forms of activism and socialization mediated by Internet. Finally, given the progressive formation of this area of ​​knowledge and the lack of consensus on its definition, it is proposed to name this interdisciplinary field of study as LGBT+ Communicational Studies, to show an epistemological perspective from communication and a Latin American ontological position.

Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain

This article develops the new concept of environing media against the case of Mexico’s complex history over the past five centuries. To do this, it stakes out a theoretical development consisting in a shift in understanding from media as content-delivery systems to data processors, combining it with a processual understanding of environment as an ongoing and historical process of environing. In addition, the article discusses examples of indigenous media, an area that has so far received very little attention. The Aztec empire was as dependent on media forms as the Spanish colonizers who replaced it, and there are numerous cases of knowledges and practices surviving in hybrid forms, for example as part of maps. For much of its history, the field of media studies has been biased toward questions of (1) ideological or attitudinal influence caused by (2) modern or emergent technologies. This article goes in another direction by thinking about media as (1) environing and (2) residual. Media are agencies of civilizational and environmental order. The rise of digital media in recent decades has reinforced the fundamental logistical role of media as agencies that arrange, catalog, organize, network, and index people, places, and things. Our understanding of media as fundamental constituents of organization joins the recent interest in infrastructures. Calendars, clocks, towers, names, addresses, maps, registers, arms, and money are all infrastructural media. Such media become second nature, morphing biorhythms and altering ecosystems. Today’s planetary digital infrastructure builds upon the long legacy of resource management via databases. We argue for a longer genealogy of the nature shaping logistical role of media that is so evident today. In this article, we refine and exemplify these claims via a case study of some environing media in Mexico, a country with a deep and rich media history.

Multiplatform Media in Mexico: Growth and Change Since 2010, Paul Julian Smith (2019)

Review of: Multiplatform Media in Mexico: Growth and Change Since 2010, Paul Julian Smith (2019) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 204 pp., ISBN 978-3-03017-539-9, p/bk, £20.29, e-book, £21.84

Violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in Mexico.

This study estimated the prevalence of violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS) and subsequent resolutions of the World Health Assembly (Code) at health facilities, points of sale (POS), and on BMS labelling and media in Mexico. We carried out a cross-sectional survey among 693 mothers with children aged less than 24months and 48 health providers at public and private health facilities in two states of Mexico. Observational assessment at 20 POS and the health facilities was conducted as well as an analysis of labels on BMS products for sale. Women attending public and private health facilities reported receiving free BMS samples in the previous 6months (11.1%), and about 80% reported seeing BMS promotion in the mass media. Health providers reported contact with BMS manufacturer representatives in the previous 6months (15.5%), and only 41.6% of the health providers had knowledge of the Code. BMS promotions were identified at nearly all POS. Analysis of 190 BMS labels showed that 30% included pictures/text idealizing the use of BMS, and all labels incorporated health and nutrition claims. Violations of the Code are prevalent within the health services, POS, and labelling of BMS products. The high percentage of health providers with no knowledge of the Code calls for action at national level to better disseminate and comply with the Code. A transparent, free from commercial influence, and continual monitoring system for Code compliance is needed, including a follow-up component on sanctions for contraventions of the Code.

Combatting cultural ‘nerve gas’: maintaining traditional media and culture through local media production in Australia, Canada and Mexico

Abstract In Australia in the 1980s, large numbers of remote Indigenous radio stations were established due to a perception that the introduction of ‘mainstream’ satellite programming in remote areas would act as a form of cultural ‘nerve gas’ (Remedio, 2012: 295) that would threaten ‘the very isolation that had helped to preserve what remained of traditional language and culture’ (Guster, 2010: 9). There are parallels here with the development of remote media in Mexico and Canada, where local radio networks focusing on cultural content production were established in response to impending development and imposed sources of mass media. In each country, broadcasters in remote communities have, in recent years, been producing increasing amounts of hyper-local cultural and language-based content. This article examines the role played by Indigenous media in remote areas of Australia, Canada and Mexico in creating an alternative cultural voice for traditional communities and maintaining language and culture.

Youth and political participation. #Yosoy132 and the battle for freedom of expression in Mexico

The mobilization of the student movement #YoSoy132 inspired new political and civic participation among young students in the urban context of Mexico City. This study explores the habits and perspectives around political participation, freedom of expression, and the use of social networks among these university students. Based on survey data from two samples, we contrast the relationship between online and offline political practices during the birth of #YoSoy132. For the first sample, we administered a questionnaire to college students who took part in a public demonstration organized by the #YoSoy132 movement just one week before the 2012 Mexican federal election. We collected the second sample via social media online, with a focus on college students from different universities across Mexico City. We compare the similarities and differences across youth participation via the samples In Situ and Online groups. We demonstrate that digital penetration and the presence of a convergent culture are important elements that favor hybrid political and civil participation. Our findings allow us to infer, at least from our samples of college students, that social networks are gaining unprecedented importance in the formation of youth imaginaries when a strong correlation between online and offline practices exists. In the face of widespread accusations of the corruption of mass media in Mexico and systemic threats to freedom of expression, social networks provided an alternative and trustworthy route for expression, dialogue, and mobilization.

Periodistas precarios en el interior de la república mexicana: atrapados entre las fuerzas del mercado y las presiones de los gobiernos estatales

Reports issued on a number of Mexican states confirm that although competitive elections are held in all Mexican states, the intervention of state governments in local media is still customary. Journalist are hired under precarious labor conditions thus giving the local government much leeway to coopt their editorial line in exchange for economic resources. This research reveals how local media journalists have sustained an officials pro government editorial line, just as they did in the authoritarian days, and it analyses their current situation based on the “journalist professionalization” and “state control of local media” variables. The Mexican state of Queretaro was taken as case study for this research; journalists and former government officials were interviewed; content analysis was carried out, and a number of secondary sources were collected depicting the relationship between governors and local media in Mexico. Hence, data analyses suggest that the state of Queretaro can stand as an example of the control exerted by governors on local media.

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State by Erica Cusi Wortham.

American AnthropologistVolume 117, Issue 2 p. 448-449 BOOK REVIEWS Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State by Erica Cusi Wortham. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 288 pp. Juan Francisco Salazar, Juan Francisco Salazar University of Western SydneySearch for more papers by this author Juan Francisco Salazar, Juan Francisco Salazar University of Western SydneySearch for more papers by this author First published: 20 May 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12282Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume117, Issue2June 2015Pages 448-449 RelatedInformation

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community and the State. Erica Cusi Wortham, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 265 pp.

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community and the State. Erica Cusi Wortham, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 265 pp.

Erica Cusi Wortham, Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xvii+265, £70.00, £16.99 pb.

Erica Cusi Wortham, Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xvii+265, £70.00, £16.99 pb.

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State

Comunicación política, medios y elecciones en México

&lt;p&gt;Este artículo revisa las principales características de los medios de comunicación en México en un análisis del contexto socio-histórico del año 2003, dado que tales cualidades constituyen la base del rol de los medios frente al poder político, particularmente en momentos clave, como lo son las elecciones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;La autora hace un análisis del comportamiento de los medios con base en datos del IFE, para establecer que la acción de los medios puede ser un elemento que incida en el desarrollo de la democracia en México, particularmente en términos de equidad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Las mujeres y el derecho humano a la comunicación: su acceso y participación en la industria mediática

En este artículo, la autora aborda el acceso y la participación de las mujeres en la producción mediática como parte del derecho de ellas a la comunicación. Asimismo, se analizan, en este marco, el impulso que dio el feminismo al derecho humano a la comunicación hasta lograr que fuera reconocido a nivel internacional y nacional así como la participación marginal de las mujeres en los medios de comunicación, en México y otros países del mundo, en términos de propiedad, dirección y producción. Finalmente, se discuten algunas propuestas que, en el ámbito de la Ley de Medios en México, podrían contribuir a impulsar el derecho humano de las mujeres a la comunicación.

Radio, control, and indigenous peoples: the failure of state-invented citizens' media in Mexico

Since the late 1970s, the Mexican state has developed an indigenous-language radio network of 24 stations. Now the state has invented a new media formula: ‘radio stations with community, indigenous participation’. In 2004, the government commission of indigenous affairs applied for (and obtained) broadcasting permits for three low-power stations. From in-depth interviews with radio practitioners and government officials, documentary analysis, and field observation, this article documents and evaluates the new model and analyses the shift in Mexico's indigenous communication policy. Based on Stephen Riggins' theories on ethnic-minority media, the theoretical framework considers the incompatibilities between the emergence of citizens' media and the processes of state formation in Mexico. The authorities presented the project as a sign that the media were being transferred to the indigenous peoples. Three years after their first broadcast, the stations had little citizen participation, depended technologically and financially on the state, were ideologically conditioned by their government links, and had not become a forum of expression for the communities.