A Mirage of Change
Visibility of Politicians on TVE during the 2015 and 2016 General Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José María García de Madariaga (0000-0003-2168-6809, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, corresponding author), José Antonio Navarro Moreno (0000-0001-5625-5799, Universidad de Sevilla), Agustín Olmo López (0000-0002-4656-7913, Universidad de Sevilla) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-357 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2019.1598885 |
| OpenAlex | W2933650823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
The use of strategies to enhance the media visibility of politicians intensifies above all at election time and their focus is chiefly television due to the fact that it still has the greatest power to sway voters. Thus, based on a content analysis of the evening news on Televisión Española (TVE) and 18 semi-structured in-depth interviews with professionals working at the Spanish public broadcaster, the airtime that politicians were given was established to assess whether it had fulfilled its obligation as regards independence and pluralism at two crucial moments for Spanish politics: the period prior to the election calls, the pre-campaign periods and the official campaigns before the general elections held on 20 December 2015 and 26 June 2016. Both were unique in their own way: on the one hand, the debut of new political parties with the potential to win a large number of seats in Parliament; and, on the other, despite the fact that in just six months the party in power had lost its absolute majority and there were still no visible signs of change at TVE, it is still worth examining the variations in news treatment prior to both elections
Evening · General election · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Local government · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Town hall · Visibility · Law · Media and Digital Communication · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Public Administration
Comparing Media Systems
Hallin and Mancini Revisited
El pluralismo y el control de la información en las televisiones generalistas españolas
Reinventing Public Service Communication
The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media
Comparative Political Communications
Framing Politics
Patterns of Consistence and Constriction
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |