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https://hdl.handle.net/10171/42845
2024-03-29T09:38:49ZJane VINCENT. Smartphone Cultures. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, London, 2018, 194 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-23438-3 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-315-30707-7 (ebk).
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/56887
Title: Jane VINCENT. Smartphone Cultures. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, London, 2018, 194 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-23438-3 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-315-30707-7 (ebk).2018-01-01T00:00:00ZSearching for climate change consensus in broadsheet newspapers. Editorial policy and public opinion
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/55808
Title: Searching for climate change consensus in broadsheet newspapers. Editorial policy and public opinion
Abstract: The premise behind this paper is that, in order to reach social consensus on climate change, there must be consensus on the media first. This research study focuses on the search for consensus values in the editorial discourses of five proven influential broadsheet newspapers in their context and internationally, such as The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. These newspapers have published 535 opinion editorials on climate change over a 14-year period: from the Kyoto Summit in 1997 to the Durban Climate Change Conference in 2011. The methodology involves both frames and quantitative analyses. This research aims to detect the main actors and factors that influence editorial discourse, as politics and economic sources are most likely to be predominant (H1), and draw lines of possible consensus among the different media analysed (H2). The analysis shows how the political and economic connotations in editorial discourses were sometimes to the detriment of scientific and expert discourse, and the differences among countries. However, the research also underscores essential positions in common, such as the acceptance of climate change and its anthropogenic origin, or the criticism of the states’ inability to reach joint solutions to the problem.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZFact-checking and scrutiny of power: Supervision of public discourses in new media platforms from Latin America
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/55807
Title: Fact-checking and scrutiny of power: Supervision of public discourses in new media platforms from Latin America
Abstract: Fact-checking has experienced substantial growth in recent years, as a technique aimed to monitor public discourse, at a time when the dissemination of fake news or the loss of media quality and credibility has reached worrying levels. This article analyzes nine projects launched since 2010 in half a dozen Latin American countries, representative of an emerging ecosystem in a region facing problems to achieve genuine media democracy. From a qualitative and quantitative approach, this research compares the work methodology and the evaluation models presented by the digital platforms, as well as the topics and actors that are subject to examination. The study highlights the aim of these projects, independent of traditional media, to evaluate statements on the most relevant issues of the sociopolitical agenda of their countries and public representatives. The importance of these platforms is reflected in the fact that only two in ten checks from the sample can be considered true, almost half of those identified as false and of those presenting some kind of inaccuracy. The analysis reveals significant differences when carrying out the verifications and presenting the results, with options for improvement in the number of sources, the inclusion of expert voices and audiovisual resources, or the interaction with readers. The Argentinian platform Chequeado appears as a reference model in this context2018-01-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding the emergence of infectious diseases: Social representations and mass media
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/55805
Title: Understanding the emergence of infectious diseases: Social representations and mass media
Abstract: The present study examines social representations of the threat created by emerging infectious diseases. A free association experiment was carried out in which the stimulus was a news item where the framing of a discourse (human interest vs. attribution of responsibility) was manipulated. Results showed that the human interest discourse sparked off representations linked to vulnerability, while the responsibility discourse produced representations concerning preventive health care promoted by the authorities. Even so, the effect of the discourse was limited and showed that the new information is anchored in previous interpretive schemes. Implications of mass media on health communication are considered.2018-01-01T00:00:00Z