Breaking the silence ceiling: how gender violence became into a social problem in Spain through media and politics

This research presents the explanatory model of the process of reconstruction of the ʺsocial problemʺ of Intimate Partner Violence (I.P.V) in Spain during last five years, with special attention to the role of media in this process. Using a content analysis of the three more diffused general newspapers, a content analysis of the minutes of the Parliament, and the statistics of the police reports and murders, from January of 1997 to December of 2001, it observes the relationship between the evolution of the incidence of Intimate Partner Violence (I.P.V) (measured by the number of deaths and the number of police reports) and the evolution of stories about this topic in press. It also studies the interconnection of the two previous variables with the political answer to the problem (measured by the interventions on the I.P.V. in the Senate and in the Congress). Data shows that, even though police reports have increased due to the contribution of politics and media, I.P.V murders keep on growing up.

A Model to Visualize Information in a Complex Streets’ Network

his paper discusses a process to graphically view and analyze information obtained from a network of urban streets, using an algorithm that establishes a ranking of importance of the nodes of the network itself. The basis of this process is to quantify the network information obtained by assigning numerical values to each node, representing numerically the information. These values are used to construct a data matrix that allows us to apply a classification algorithm of nodes in a network in order of importance. From this numerical ranking of the nodes, the process finish with the graphical visualization of the network. An example is shown to illustrate the whole process.