ResumenEn no pocos países se viene discutiendo acerca del peligro democrático que supone una fragmentación del uso de los medios periodísticos. Al estudiar ese fenómeno, la academia ha centrado su atención en los ciudadanos, en detrimento de aquellos sujetos que, por pertenecer a la clase política, tienen una mayor capacidad de decisión e influencia. Gracias a una encuesta realizada a diputados del parlamento catalán hemos podido comprobar que entre ellos también se dan procesos de fragmentación informativa, debi dos sobre todo a una evitación de información periodística y a una selección de medios guiada ideoló gicamente. Concluimos que, de manera análoga a como sucede con la población, la fragmentación del uso de los medios informativos puede llevar a una polarización de las élites políticas y, por tanto, a un deterioro del funcionamiento del sistema democrático representativo. Palabras clave: democracia, polarización, fragmentación, medios de información, periodismo político, esfera pública Fragmentation, polarization and democracy. The Catalan Parliament deputies and their news media use Abstract In many countries scholars have discussed about the danger for the democracy posed by the fragmenta tion of the use of news media. In their study of this phenomenon, they have focused their attention on the citizens, to the detriment of the members of the political class. Thanks to a survey of members of the Catalan Parliament we have seen that politicians also have a tendency to fragmentation, mainly due to an avoidance of information and ideologically driven media selection. Our research concludes that, as in the case of the population, fragmentation of media use can lead to polarization of political elites and therefore to a deterioration of the representative democratic system.
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