Entre el activismo y la mediatización: encuadres de partidos y prensa en la campaña catalana de 2017

Abstract

RESUMEN:Los estudios sobre la cobertura periodística de las campañas electorales apuntan a una creciente mediatización. Este trabajo busca corroborar si la tendencia también se da en circunstancias excepcionales, como las de las elecciones autonómicas de Cataluña en 2017. La investigación compara los encuadres presentados por seis periódicos (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya, Punt Avui y Ara) con los adoptados por los siete partidos políticos representados en el parlamento autonómico (JuntsXCat, ERC, PSC, PP, Ciudadanos, En Comú-Podem y CUP). Los resultados indican que los encuadres simbólicos propios de la acción colectiva dominaron en el mensaje de los partidos, aunque la lógica mediática volvió a ser hegemónica en términos globales.Palabras clave: comunicación política; información política; framing; mediatización; campaña electoral; movilización. ABSTRACT:Research on media coverage of electoral campaigns point to an increasing mediatization. This paper seeks to corroborate whether the trend also takes place in exceptional circumstances, such as those surrounding the regional elections in Catalonia in 2017. The analysis compares the frames observed in six newspapers (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya, Punt Avui and Ara) with those adopted by the seven political parties represented in the autonomous parliament (JuntsXCat, ERC, PSC, PP, Ciudadanos, En Comú-Podem and CUP). The results indicate that the symbolic frames characteristic of collective action were dominant in the political discourses, although the media logic once again became hegemonic in global terms.

Promotion of hate speech by Spanish political actors on Twitter

“…In this study, only tweets published in Spanish were considered, as it is the official language of the Spanish territory and the one used in the national political debate, beyond each group's regional scope and political profile (Table 1). Guided by the findings of authors such as Corujo et al (2019), Carratalá and Palau‐Sampio (2019), who are based on others (Gould & Messina, 2014), the common elements associated with the different political groups in this work include the following: (1) the territorial presence being limited or not to a substate level; (2) the level to which self‐government within the Spanish political system is or is not supported; (3) the appeal or not to identity or territoriality (more or less) exclusive to the group. These aspects were taken into consideration, although recognizing the different nuances of each group studied, to categorize them into three blocks that would help approach the proposed topic: Pro‐independence political groups, with a territorial presence limited to a substate level, focused more on political arguments oriented towards self‐government claims and, to a lesser extent, on the identity or territoriality of the geographical area where they exercise their political action. Nationalist political groups, with a territorial presence limited to a substate level, focused more on connecting their voters through arguments oriented towards identity or territoriality and, to a lesser extent, towards self‐government. Constitutionalist political groups, with a territorial presence both at the substate and state levels (the entire country), with political arguments far removed from any form of self‐government, focused on the splitting of the current political system, and more aimed at establishing connections with their voters from a vision of identity and territoriality in Spanish and Spain (as a nation), above other forms of existing regional representation.…”

“…In this study, only tweets published in Spanish were considered, as it is the official language of the Spanish territory and the one used in the national political debate, beyond each group's regional scope and political profile (Table 1). Guided by the findings of authors such as Corujo et al (2019), Carratalá and Palau-Sampio (2019), who are based on others (Gould & Messina, 2014), the common elements associated with the different political groups in this work include the following: (1) the territorial presence being limited or not to a substate level;…”

Vox and journalistic information: use and criticism of the media in the 2019 General Election campaigns

“…The data extracted from the quantitative content analysis of the posts on networks were finished off wi th a qualitative examination of the speeches that Vox's leaders made when closing electoral campaign rallies that the party held in Madrid on 26 April (duration 01:15:08) and 8 November (01:04:30), a few hours before the polls opened. We analysed the speeches made by five leaders (Abascal, Espinosa de los Monteros, Monasterio, Ortega Smith and Alzola) using an approach typical of the critical analysis of the frames, a method that has proven useful in researching the discourse of far-right parties (Sengul, 2019;Carratalá et al, 2021) with the purpose of identifying the strategies they used to construct their discourse on the medi a.…”

Global Spaces for Local Politics: An Exploratory Analysis of Facebook Ads in Spanish Election Campaigns

“…In October 2017, the regional government of Catalonia called a referendum for independence, which was declared illegal by the Constitutional Court. This political conflict presented a central role during Catalan elections in December of the same year (Carratalá and Palau-Sampio 2019). In June 2018, Prime Minister Rajoy was forced out of office after losing a no-confidence vote in Parliament, which was called after one of the People's Party's treasurers had been convicted of corruption 1 , with Pedro Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, who had filed the motion, taking office.…”