Engaging social media audiences with riots: TV and newspapers’ coverage of the 2019 protests in Colombia and Chile

IF 1.3 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Communication Gazette Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI:10.1177/17480485231206363

Víctor García-Perdomo, María Isabel Magaña, Juan Camilo Hernández-Rodríguez, José Augusto Ventín-Sánchez

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This research utilizes the theoretical framework of the protest paradigm to analyze how major TV channels and newspapers in Chile and Colombia covered—on their official X (Twitter) accounts—the massive 2019 protests. The paper collected data using the software Crimson Hexagon (CH), a social media analysis software that accesses all public messages posted on Twitter, and then conducted a manual content analysis to fully explore the adherence to the paradigm in digital environments, including audience interactions with media content. Results show that chosen media outlets take mainly the riot and confrontation frames to delegitimize protesters, partially influencing the reaction of audiences who engaged with those diminishing devices. A further analysis demonstrates how deeply intertwined the media are with the status quo and elites. In addition, legacy media, particularly TV, seem to fall into a systematic delegitimization of social protest. This research is valuable as it enhances the understanding of media portrayals of protests in Latin America given the new dynamics of news engagement on social media.

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让社交媒体观众参与骚乱:电视和报纸对2019年哥伦比亚和智利抗议活动的报道

本研究利用抗议范式的理论框架来分析智利和哥伦比亚的主要电视频道和报纸如何在其官方X (Twitter)账户上报道2019年的大规模抗议活动。本文使用Crimson Hexagon (CH)软件收集数据，这是一款可以访问Twitter上发布的所有公开消息的社交媒体分析软件，然后进行手动内容分析，以充分探索数字环境中对范式的遵守情况，包括受众与媒体内容的互动。结果表明，所选择的媒体主要采用骚乱和对抗框架来使抗议者失去合法性，部分影响了使用这些减少设备的受众的反应。进一步的分析表明，媒体与现状和精英的关系是多么紧密。此外，传统媒体，特别是电视，似乎陷入了系统性的社会抗议的非合法性。鉴于社交媒体上新闻参与的新动态，这项研究很有价值，因为它增强了对拉丁美洲媒体对抗议活动的描述的理解。

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