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The presidential elections in Brazil (2018). The coverage of the Argentine reference press
| Summary: | The electoral processes in general represent an interesting opportunity to analyze the positioning of the press. The media thematize these situations and in their discursive construction they offer certain representations / frames of the social, economic and political scenarios of the countries where the elections that narrate and comment take place. The general objective of the investigation is to analyze comparatively the coverage of the Argentine reference press on the triumph of Jair Bolsonaro. The study describes the agenda that has been activated by the two newspapers with the highest circulation in Argentina, Clarín and La Nación, during October 2018. The methodology used is the classic content analysis. To assist in the analysis of the exploratory process, the ATLAS / ti software is also used. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of agenda-setting, thematization and framing. Among the main findings of the investigation: the coverage importance index has ranged between the medium-high and maximum range, the agenda on the Brazilian electoral process focused on the news that had Bolsonaro as its protagonist, both newspapers used their own information in the discursive construction of the elections and the main frame was the strategic. |
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| Main Authors: | Acosta, Marina |
| Other Authors: | Demirdjian, Silvia |
| Subject: | agenda-setting framing elecciones prensa de referencia Brasil Argentina |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | unknown |
| Associated institution: | IBICT |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Oasisbr |
| Summary: | The electoral processes in general represent an interesting opportunity to analyze the positioning of the press. The media thematize these situations and in their discursive construction they offer certain representations / frames of the social, economic and political scenarios of the countries where the elections that narrate and comment take place. The general objective of the investigation is to analyze comparatively the coverage of the Argentine reference press on the triumph of Jair Bolsonaro. The study describes the agenda that has been activated by the two newspapers with the highest circulation in Argentina, Clarín and La Nación, during October 2018. The methodology used is the classic content analysis. To assist in the analysis of the exploratory process, the ATLAS / ti software is also used. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of agenda-setting, thematization and framing. Among the main findings of the investigation: the coverage importance index has ranged between the medium-high and maximum range, the agenda on the Brazilian electoral process focused on the news that had Bolsonaro as its protagonist, both newspapers used their own information in the discursive construction of the elections and the main frame was the strategic. |
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