Author, as appears in the article.: Castello, Enric;

Department: Estudis de Comunicació

URV's Author/s: Castelló Cogollos, Enric

Keywords: Television news Public television Political conflict Mediatization Demonstrations coverage Democracy

Abstract: This article analyzes how statewide and regional public television in Spain handled the demonstration held on September 11, 2012 (the National Day of Catalonia), in Barcelona under the slogan 'Catalonia, a New European State.' The author performed a content analysis of fifty-eight news programs and a narrative analysis of eighty-nine stories. The results indicate that the majority of the channels offered limited coverage of the demonstration. The television narratives also minimized the role of citizen agency in the achievement of goals through democratic participation and displayed a depoliticized account. The author argues that the coverage of the march and its consequences resulted in a masking of citizens political engagement; far from promoting an understanding of why the march was so massively supported, it instead presented a story on politicians strategy. The author relates this case to a wider trend of media coverage of citizens protests in a Western, post-democratic context.

Thematic Areas: Visual arts and performing arts Science and technology studies Media studies and communication Información y documentación Historia General o multidisciplinar Film, radio, television Educação Cultural studies Comunicació i informació Comunicação e informação Communication Ciencias sociales Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciencias humanas Arts

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: enric.castello@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-2154-2450

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion

Link to the original source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476414545890

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Television & New Media. 16 (6): 521-537

APA: Castello, Enric; (2015). Masking Political Engagement: Television Coverage of a Mass Demonstration in Barcelona. Television & New Media, 16(6), 521-537. DOI: 10.1177/1527476414545890

Article's DOI: 10.1177/1527476414545890

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2015

Publication Type: Journal Publications