Informative analysis about the Covid-19 Alarm State on the front pages of the Spanish newspapers

Comparative study between El País, El Mundo, ABC and 20 Minutos: Estudio comparativo de El País, El Mundo, ABC y 20 Minutos

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ID22115349
AuthorsConcepción Gómez López (0000-0002-3243-9427, Universidade de Vigo), Silvia Alende Castro (0000-0002-4877-262X, Universidade de Vigo)
Year2020
Volume7
Issue14
Pages172-208
Publication date2020-10-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2341-2690 • E-ISSN: 2341-2690
PublisherAsociacion Espanola de Investigacion de la Comunicacion (AE-IC) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24137/raeic.7.14.8
OpenAlexW3112833696
LanguageEN
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The present investigation studies the use of some tools in the discourse informative of the covers of the newspaper to explain the causes and consequences of the State of Alarm during the first week of confinement. As a previous step, a survey was carried out on social networks to capture opinion trends regarding the information disseminated by the media during the confinement The aim has been developed from the corpus created with 132 informative pieces (texts and images) published in the four newspaper headlines in paper with more diffusion according to the data published by the EGM. To delimit the period of study (14 of March-22 of March of 2020) we took like reference two facts that had special relevance in the crisis propitiate by the coronavirus: The statement of the State of Alarm and the overcoming the psychological barrier of the first 1000 died in Spain by the pandemic. Inside this frame temporal of a week, built the sample from the holders and images published in the 32 covers selected for this investigation that answered to the criteria prefixed for the research. With the data obtained, realized and no exploratory analysis to determine the use of the following journalistic resources in the covers: the informative sources, thematic, informative gender and accompaniment of photographs or other graphic elements

Cartography · Geography · Media studies · Newspaper · Pathology · Political science · Sociology · Communication and COVID-19 Impact · Computer Science · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology

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