Abstract

This article, is the result of an investigation that studies the information consigned by four Chilean national media on the case of frustrated femicide committed against Nabila Rifo Ruiz, a Chilean woman whose eyeballs were ripped out. From the application of categorical content analysis, it was possible to raise the representation of the domestic spaces that served as the scene of the crime, as well as to identify the similarities and differences consigned within the information referred to this case and to determine the representation constructed around the victim and the perpetrator, protagonists of the analyzed news event. The study findings confirm the problematic role played by mass media in terms of contributing to perpetuate stereotypes that tend to establish mitigating factors in relation to the acts committed by the perpetrator and to maintain preconceived ideas about the personality of women victims of gender violence.