July 1, 2020
Giuseppina Sapio, « Victimes de violences conjugales face aux campagnes institutionnelles entre ventriloquie, injonctions et paradoxes », Études de communication, ID : 10.4000/edc.10041
This article presents the results of a fieldwork study conducted in Italy in an anti-violence center for female victims of domestic abuse. Based on a semio-pragmatic approach combined with symbolic interactionism (in the form of focus groups), the study explores how victims of domestic violence react to representations of their own situation of victimhood in institutional media campaigns against domestic abuse. The creation of a dialogue between the media corpus and women’s testimonies brings to light the effects of institutional « ventriloquism » as well as the injunctions and paradoxes that characterize media coverage of this public problem.