Data set. Testing Protest Paradigm in Femicide Protests in Mexican Press

his Data set consist of the coding of 865 articles from national Mexican newspapers, from El Universal, Reforma, and Excélsior. It is corresponding to research that analyzes the representation of the protests against femicide in the Mexican press, and the opportunities reached by the social movement in the public discourse. Previous studies found a tendency for negative representations of social movements in the media in the so-called ‘protest paradigm’, this means that the attention obtained does not necessarily guarantee the reproduction of the movement’s discourse. We use the paradigm approach and test the degree of adherence. It registered media attention to the femicide issue for a period of 41 months in three national newspapers. The corpus was examined by using the qualitative content analysis technique, with variables that measure the stories’ emphasis, prominence, legitimation, and tone for social movements and authorities, to compare the two actors.