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Home / Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Number 139, Julio-Septiembre 2012

Open Access Negativismo mediático y campaáa electoral en las Elecciones Generales de 2008

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This paper aims to understand the behavior of Spain?s main media within a specifi c electoral context: the 2008 General Election. To this end, we analyzed the coverage of the major Spanish newspapers (El País, El Mundo and Abc) in order to determine whether their agenda setting and framing had political motives, in addition to the merely informative intention. Spanish media had at least two options within the context of the elections: to offer their readers a neutral coverage or, on the contrary, to taint it with obvious partisanship. Our fi ndings demonstrate the predominance of the latter option.

Keywords: 2008 Election; Campañas electorales; Coberturas negativas; Elecciones de 2008; Electoral Campaigns; España; Media Polarization; Negative Coverage; Polarización mediática; Spain

Language: Spanish

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 January 2012

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  • Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS) is a quarterly publication of the Center for Sociological Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas - CIS), and constitutes one of the main editorial activities of CIS. REIS was first published in 1978, with the main goal of disseminating the results of sociological research aiming at a better understanding of the Spanish society. Its historic course and the high level of quality demanded on its contributions has situated REIS in an outstanding position as a reference journal in the area of the Social Sciences. The journal covers a wide range of topics in the field of Sociology and Political Science in general.

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