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This research resumes some discussions in Visual Sociology about methods taken from the Linguistics and the Semiotics that became increasingly useful in the analysis of visual products in the social practices. We propose a framing analysis applied to the visual representation of the peace process between the Colombian Government and the FARC between 2012 and 2016. The corpus consists in pictures from the newspaper El Tiempo, as it is a relevant actor in the framing process. This work provides an innovative methodology to understand the ways of hegemonic interpretation intended to convert a war actor into a civilian actor and his/her consequent reincorporation in the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to represent and discredit the political actors and systems in Latin America throughout the international news in the on-line versions of Tagesschau, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel during 2016. The authors depict how stereotyped attributions and negative images are produced when introducing Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. This results in a delegitimization of the political actors and systems, as well as a reproduction of the Latin American inferiority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article confronts the strategic communication of government actors during the state visit of the Colombian president Santos with their media coverage and displays the transcription into the media-political discourse. Press releases from the Colombian and European governments and from the EU are compared to the articles published in the six most-read national wide quality newspapers in each country. By inductive category formation propositions were condensed and the presentation of the international relations, the Colombian context and the attribution of Santos were analyzed. Therefore hegemonic positions and the extent of congruence between political communication and media reporting can be identified. Aditionally, it is possible to show that the presentation of the country as a country in postconflict is strongly linked to the person of Santos himself. However, there is a gap between the setting of the post-conflict and the reality perceived by social and political actors such as human rights organizations. This article subscribes the research line about political communication and international relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]