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Poverty, language and media: The cases of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico

The POLAME-Project brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of researchers to study the language used by the most important newspapers in these four countries to construct and convey the notions of poverty.

El proyecto POLAME está conformado por un grupo internacional y multidisciplinario de investigadores que estudian el lenguaje empleado por los diarios más importantes de estos cuatro países para construir y difundir las nociones de pobreza.

Funding: The Research Council of Norway (RCN). Project Nr. 227187

Contact:

Project Director: Associate Professor Ana B. Chiquito

Administration: Senior Executive Officer Victoria Jensen

Collaborating institutions:

Norway: University of Bergen, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Argentina: Universidad de Tucumán and The National Scientific & Technical Research Council (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Salta, Universidad Nacional de San Juan
Brazil: Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA).
Colombia: Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Nacional.
Mexico: Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Universidad de Guadalajara.