REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales (Dec 2007)
Redes Semánticas de la Pobreza. La Argentina del 2001.
Abstract
This paper is framed within the qualitative stream of network analysis, trying to rebuild the global structure of the semantics of networks events. The data is based in the news appeared in the newspaper “La Voz del Interior” during the year 2001 about poverty, being this newspaper published in the city of Cordoba, Republic of Argentina. The objective on this text is to identify “the semantic” networks of the poverty in a significant period selecting from the 1600 articles corresponding to period of 1990-2001 those correspondent to the last year. This year is a break in the “cycle of social protests” (Tarrow, 1997) in Argentina, a landmark in the process of the popular struggles in Argentina.