What Drives Selective Exposure to Political Information in Spain?

Communication research underlines two types of selective exposure to the media: one guided by ideological-partisan affiliations and one guided by interest in politics. This work will compare both motivations in the consumption of political information through three media types (digital press, television, and radio) by Spanish citizens during the 2019 November General Election. Through multinomial logistic regressions applied to a representative post-electoral survey, results show that ideological-partisan orientations are the most important variables governing selective exposure, especially for the digital press and the radio. Besides confirming ideological selective exposure, the data highlight an important tendency towards selective avoidance of news media perceived as ideologically incongruent. For television, however, both socio-demographic trends and ideological orientations exhibit a similar explanatory weight, which suggests that political segmentation of the Spanish television market is still being deployed by communication groups, in comparison with the press and the radio.

intensificación en controversias en líneas en español

Esta investigación presenta un análisis de la intensificación en un corpus de comentarios en español a artículos de prensa digitales sobre la fiesta de Moros y Cristianos, una tradición controvertida en España por el tratamiento de ciertos grupos sociales. Basándose en Albelda y Briz (2020), definimos la intensificación como una estrategia retórico-pragmática de argumentación por la que el hablante refuerza lo dicho y/o su intención para lograr más eficazmente sus metas conversacionales en el discurso. Por eso, este artículo se interesa por las estrategias lingüísticas de intensificación empleadas para posicionarse en estas controversias, tomando en cuenta los contextos comunicativos en los que aparecen, así como las funciones que desempeñan respecto a la argumentación y la imagen. A partir de una metodología adaptada de la metodología desarrollada por Albelda et al. (2014), los resultados muestran que la intensificación aparece principalmente en intervenciones que reaccionan a lo dicho anteriormente de forma general para reforzar la expresión de la postura personal del hablante. This article presents an analysis of intensification in a corpus of comments in Spanish to digital press articles about the Moors and Christians festival, a tradition that led to controversies in Spain due to its treatment of certain social groups. Based on Albelda and Briz (2020), intensification is defined as a rhetorical and pragmatic strategy of argumentation whereby the speaker strengthens what he says and/or his intention to achieve more efficiently his conversational goals. Therefore, this paper looks into the linguistic strategies of intensification, taking into consideration the specific interactional contexts in which they appear and the functions they carry out regarding argumentation and face. Based on the methodology developed by Albelda and al. (2014), the results show that intensification appears mainly in moves that respond to the entire discussion in order to strengthen the expression of the personal perspective of the speaker.

Monitoreo sobre la Contingencia sanitaria COVID-19 en la prensa digital veracruzana y Twitter. Comparativo 2020

El Observatorio Veracruzano de Medios (ObVio) realizó el Monitoreo de la prensa digital de Veracruz y de la comunidad digital veracruzana de Twitter sobre la COVID-19 durante los meses de abril y mayo del 2020, con el objetivo de indagar en la re-presentación de la pandemia en nuestro estado.En esta ocasión presentamos el comparativo de los principales resultados obtenidos del análisis de las 2116 noticias y 6878 tuits. The Observatorio Veracruzano de Medios (ObVio) carried out the monitoring of the digital press of Veracruz and tweets about the COVID-19 during the months of April and May 2020. The objective of researching was the representation of the pandemic in Veracruz.This investigation present the comparative between the main results obtained from the analysis of the 2116 news and 6878 tweets.Key words: COVID-19, Veracruz, Digital press, Twitter, Content Analysis