Abtract Five nuclear power plants with seven reactors operate in Spain, one of the countries in the EU in which support for nuclear power is weaker. For understanding the public debate about nuclear energy is essential to know media discourse. The aims of this investigation are to find out how news is provided on nuclear power from an environmental point of view, who are the sources is the nuclear debate and to determine the editorial line with regard to the use of nuclear power in the seven national Spanish newspaper during five years (2008-2012). Applying the technique of content analysis for data collection, a qualitative analysis is carried out which identifies news frames a priori defined taking a deductive approach. The results show that the environmental perspective on nuclear power is relatively unusual. Using an ecoefficient frame, it is defined as a clean source of energy. Politicians play the greatest role and party political use is made of the nuclear power issue. Spanish nuclear coverage emphasizes the views of interest groups rather than those of scientists and other experts, ecologists or citizens. Thus, the press doesn´t play the substantive role in public deliberation and doesn´t connect with the different interests and sensitivities existing in the public sphere about nuclear energy.
Este trabajo analiza la eficacia de las estrategias de comunicación de los movimientos antifracking en España. El estudio plantea la eficacia de las reivindicaciones que realizan tanto ONGs como plataformas ciudadanas en estos últimos años en función de la respuesta y el compromiso de la administración pública. En España, las protestas antifracking son protagonizadas por las ONG ambientalistas y los movimientos sociales ligados al territorio en forma de plataformas o asambleas contrarias al fracking. El poder de las plataformas ciudadanas ha logrado que los gobiernos regionales apoyen sus reivindicaciones frente al gobierno central, con la competencia estatal.PALABRAS CLAVE: Medio Ambiente, Comunicación política, Ciudadanía, Movimientos Sociales, Redes Sociales.
Climate change research in Argentina focuses on its physical aspects (natural sciences) and not so much on the social aspects, beyond the various surveys measuring perceptions and concerns of Argentinians about climate change. There are few studies that address the problem of communicating the issue from a social sciences standpoint, and these refer to analysis of its coverage in the leading newspapers. And almost all have been published in Spanish. The links between media coverage, policy, and public perceptions in Argentina have not been the subject of academic research thus far. Given the lack of specific bibliography examining the climate change communication from a transversal outlook, in-depth interviews were used to find this out. This study presents an overview of the communication of climate change in Argentina considering not only the journalistic point of view but also that of other social actors. Five areas of interest were defined: the political, the scientific, the media, NGO environmentalists, and what this article refers to as “other sectors.” This fifth area incorporated other voices from the business sector or the non-specialized civil sphere in order to complement the panorama of representative actors that have something to say about the communication of the climate change in Argentina.
Rare diseases are extremely severe, disabling pathologies. In total, 7% of the world’s population suffers from a rare disease. To publicize their plight, people suffering from such diseases and their families have turned to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among other social media platforms, as effective tools for sharing their problems, calling for greater investment in research and to cope with their day-to-day hardships. Symbols and representations defining rare diseases that have been established in the media and on social networking services have thus gained in prominence. This research asks what the emergence of the TikTok app, the second most downloaded in 2019 and the first in 2020, has meant for how these diseases are made visible. To answer this question, 2,750 TikTok posts with the 11 most popular hashtags related to rare diseases in six languages were analyzed between 1 January 2019 and 30 September 2020. The findings confirm that, against this highly personalized backdrop, the widespread use of TikTok is changing an already consolidated discourse of protest and fostering the creation of new codes with unpredictable results for the recognition and support needed by this marginalized community. Resumen Las enfermedades raras son patologías muy severas y discapacitantes que afectan al 7% de la población mundial. Para intentar visibilizar y denunciar su situación, las personas que padecen estas enfermedades y sus familias hallaron en Facebook, Twitter y YouTube, entre otras redes sociales, un canal eficaz para compartir sus problemas, exigir una mayor inversión en investigación y poder conllevar sus dificultades diarias. Desde entonces, se han estimado como válidos elementos simbólicos y de representación que se han ido forjando en los medios y en las redes sociales. Esta investigación se pregunta qué supone la irrupción de la aplicación TikTok, la segunda más descargada en 2019 y primera de 2020, en el modo en que son visibilizadas estas enfermedades. Para responder a la cuestión se han analizado 2.750 publicaciones en TikTok procedentes de los 11 hashtags más populares sobre enfermedades raras en 6 idiomas, entre el 1 de enero de 2019 y el 30 de septiembre de 2020. Se evidencia que, bajo el telón de la escenografía personalista, el uso masivo de TikTok está cambiando un discurso reivindicativo ya consolidado y está invitando a la creación de nuevos códigos con resultados impredecibles para el conocimiento y necesidades que este grupo poblacional en riesgo de exclusión demanda.
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