The coverage of the international press in framing the Catalan sovereignty process: Analysis of ten leading EU and US newspapers 2010–17

Sorribes, Carles Pont i; Perales-García, Cristina; Mauri-Ríos, Marcel; Tulloch, Christopher D.

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“…Between 2010 and 2019 large-scale public demonstrations on the streets of Barcelona were a recurring feature of the Catalan secession movement. From 2010 onwards, support for the right to decide on secession grew rapidly in the region after Spain’s high court decided to block Catalonia’s new statue of autonomy first proposed in 2006 (Pont-Sorribes et al, 2019). In particular, the demonstration held on July 10th 2010 was significantly larger than previous events and was one of the largest in Spain’s post-transition period (Subirats & Vilaregut, 2012).…”

Section: The Political Context Of the Catalan Conflictmentioning

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“…In particular, the street demonstrations that have accompanied the political process have been widely studied (e.g., Alonso-Muñoz, 2014; Capdevila & Moragas-Fernández, 2019; Castelló, 2015; Gili et al, 2018; Moragas-Fernández & Capdevila, 2017; Palà Navarro, 2018; Xambó et al, 2014) while the secession process has also attracted interest from researchers examining the use of social media, its coverage in the national media, the strategies of the political parties, and the role played by television and radio (Algaba & Bellido-Pérez, 2019; Ballesteros, 2015; Guerrero-Solé, 2017; Martínez & Álvarez-Peralta, 2016; Monferrer & Bellido, 2018; Palà Navarro, 2020; Perales-García et al, 2019; Pont-Sorribes et al, 2018; Sampedro et al, 2021; San Cornelio & Gómez, 2019; Xicoy-Comas et al, 2017, 2020). Finally, research into the international repercussions of the process has been the object of several studies, especially devoted to the treatment given to the Catalan conflict in the international press (e.g., Dubois & Villeneuve-Siconnelly, 2019; Høeberg, 2014; Perales-García & Pont-Sorribes, 2018; Pont-Sorribes et al, 2019).…”

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Framing the Catalan Conflict: A Decade of el procés in the International Media

Perales-García

Sorribes

Meseguer-Mañá

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American Behavioral Scientist

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Since 2010 the Catalan secessionist movement has been reported on extensively in the global media. Beginning with the 2010 demonstrations against the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court to reject a new Catalan statute of autonomy, and covering subsequent events such as the unofficial self-determination referendum in 2017, the trial and imprisonment of Catalan political leaders, and the violent protests against the verdicts; the events in the region have all featured heavily on the front pages of the international press. This study analyzes how US and UK newspapers have covered the Catalan independence movement during the period from 2010 to 2019. To do so, this study focuses on two US newspapers ( The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two from the UK newspapers ( The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian) and observes how the positions of the Spanish and Catalan governments are represented through the analysis of the frames used to construct the newspapers’ coverage, as well as the overall tone and the sources used by the journalists. To detect the dominant framework, a framing analysis is undertaken from a communicative and deductive perspective, applying Semetko and Valkenburg’s classification. In-depth interviews are also conducted with the newspapers’ Spanish-based foreign correspondents which allows the analysis to include the correspondents’ views on the difficulties faced by them during their time spent while covering the conflict. The study’s primary conclusion is that the international press downplays the significant role played by social movements and civil society in the secession movement, with a strong preference shown by journalists to rely on representatives of official sources as the most valid spokespersons for the movement. Secondly, the study finds that media attention follows closely the flash-points of the conflict with more coverage appearing at the moments of greater political tension between the Spanish and Catalan governments. This suggests that civil society mobilizations attract less interest from the media that instead prefers to focus on developments in the political sphere.

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Framing the Catalan Conflict: A Decade of el procés in the International Media

Perales-García

Sorribes

Meseguer-Mañá

et al. 2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…The press coverage of Catalonia's independence aspirations has previously been discussed in various papers. For instance, Pont-Sorribes et al (2019) found that most stories in Europe and the USA contained specific predominant frames, including conflict and responsibility. The authors concluded that the media discourse in the international press was based on conflict and difference.…”

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Catalan Identity through the Lens of Multilingual News

Ponomarenko¹,

Guinot

2022

ZER- Rev. estud. comun.

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This paper compares how lexical units created in Catalan discourse, and related to the aspirations of independence, are reproduced by Euronews in Spanish, English, German and French and how their function as linguistic tools of discursive identity construction changes after translation (transediting). Based on the discourse-historical approach, we could detect three main strategies of discursive identity construction (autonomisation, legitimation, and unification) in the 37 selected articles between 2015-2021, which are often due to the discrepancies in terminology and different background knowledge in a particular target culture, together with the need to comply with media format and journalistic register.

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“…The large number of samples which we have read in order to carry out our research (901 press articles and 3.822 Twitter posts) makes this a methodical and rigorous study of how the traditional media (in this case printed) and the social networks (specifically Twitter) interpreted the events that occurred between October 1st and October 8th, 2017. This research does not focus exclusively on either the press (Vellón, 2020;Pont-Sorribes et al, 2019;Dubois & Villeneuve-Siconnelly, 2019;Perales-García & Pont-Sorribes, 2017;Cartes-Barroso, 2018;Dorado & Sixto-García, 2021;Xicoy et al, 2017;Irala-Hortal, 2020) or on social networks (Anderson, 2019;San Cornelio & Gómez Cruz, 2019;Carrasco et al, 2018;Hernández-Santaolalla & Sola-Morales, 2019;Gil Ramírez, 2019) as other previous studies have done, but instead includes both, in their textual and visual dimensions, which allowed us to establish diverse comparatives of the regional/national/international axes and/or the press and Twitter, which enriches the exploration of the discursive and communicative complexity which characterized the events of October 1st. As can be seen, this comparative approximation has been less frequently employed in the field of communication research in Spain (Pérez Curiel, 2020).…”

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Analysis of the social and media debate during the Catalan Independence Referendum

Medina

Jiménez

2022

BJR

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– This research includes an analysis of the media frameworks built around the Catalan government’s attempt to organize the referendum for independence from Spain on Oct 1st, 2017. Based on previous studies on the use of pragmatic and symbolic frameworks during independence processes, the objective is to identify the main interpretive frameworks, actors, and actions that starred in the symbolic battle over national identities, comparing (1) the media coverage of the referendum in two national, two international, and two regional newspapers with (2) the social debate on Twitter. The comparative quantitative analysis shows how the media prioritized emotional information and historical aspects, with notable differences between the national media and the social debate on Twitter. The coverage in international newspapers, however, was more similar to the debate on Twitter and had a notable influence on framing this public issue. RESUMO – Esta pesquisa inclui a análise das estruturas de mídia construídas em torno da tentativa do governo catalão de organizar o referendo pela independência da Espanha em 1º de outubro de 2017. Com base em estudos anteriores sobre o uso de estruturas pragmáticas e simbólicas em processos de independência, o objetivo é identificar os principais marcos interpretativos, atores e ações que protagonizaram a batalha simbólica pelas identidades nacionais, comparando (1) a cobertura midiática do referendo em dois jornais nacionais, dois internacionais e dois regionais com (2) a conversa social no Twitter. A análise quantitativa comparativa ilustra como a mídia priorizou a informação emocional e os aspectos históricos, com diferenças notáveis entre a mídia nacional e a conversa do Twitter. Jornais internacionais, no entanto, foram mais parecidos com a conversa no Twitter e tiveram uma influência notável no enquadramento desta questão pública. RESUMEN – Esta investigación incluye el análisis de los marcos mediáticos construidos alrededor del intento del gobierno catalán de organizar el referéndum de independencia de España del 1-Oct de 2017. Basado en estudios previos sobre el uso de marcos pragmáticos y simbólicos en los procesos de independencia, el objetivo es identificar los principales marcos interpretativos, actores y acciones que protagonizaron la batalla simbólica sobre las identidades nacionales, comparando (1) la cobertura mediática del referéndum en dos diarios nacionales, dos internacionales y dos regionales con (2) la conversación social en Twitter. El análisis cuantitativo comparativo ilustra cómo los medios priorizaron la información emocional y los aspectos históricos, con notables diferencias entre los medios nacionales y la conversación de Twitter. Los diarios internacionales, sin embargo, fueron más similares a la conversación en Twitter y tuvieron notable influencia en el enmarcado de este tema público.

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The coverage of the international press in framing the Catalan sovereignty process: Analysis of ten leading EU and US newspapers 2010–17

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Framing the Catalan Conflict: A Decade of el procés in the International Media

Framing the Catalan Conflict: A Decade of el procés in the International Media

Catalan Identity through the Lens of Multilingual News

Analysis of the social and media debate during the Catalan Independence Referendum

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