Los programas de televisión estadounidenses y la percepción de la violencia en televidentes de Monterrey, México

Abstract

This document reports on a telephone survey carried out between May and June 2004, whose central aim was to investigate whether US television differentiates the way in which television spectators of the metropolitan area of Monterrey construct their vision of the violence around them. The theoretical support of the work is based on cultivation analysis and the fact that this approach has not been routinely compared outside the United States. We pose the question: Is there a relation between exposure to US television and the social construction of reality that the inhabitants hold with respect to violence and the probability of being victimised? Our findings reject the idea that all US programming has this type of relationship and supports the notion that North American films are indeed related with the influence of fear in Monterrey television spectators.