Cristina Perales-García

• Pompeu Fabra University

En las sociedades occidentales la división sexual del trabajo resultante del sistema patriarcal y capitalista dejó los cuidados a cargo de las mujeres. En las últimas décadas el movimiento feminista ha reivindicado el valor de los cuidados y ha denunciado su relegación al ámbito privado. Investigar cómo se posicionan las formaciones políticas respe...

El concepto de confianza está ampliamente estudiado por los académicos, identificando no sólo varios ángulos desde los que observar dicho fenómeno, sino también sus múltiples consecuencias. Así, se ha determinado que mejorar la confianza en las instituciones es fundamental para incrementar el capital social (Luoma-aho, 2005), el compromiso ciudadan...

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 imp...

El artículo explica cómo los semanarios norteamericanos Time y Newsweek representaron los diversos episodios de violencia durante la Transición política española tanto desde la extrema derecha como la ejercida por organizaciones terroristas como ETA y GRAPO. Estas revistas políticas internacionales de élite, tan seguidas por parte de los policy-mak...

In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in four Spanish newspapers: two published in mainland Spain – El Mundo and El País –and two published in Catalonia – La Vanguardia and ARA. By doing a qualitative study of newspapers, this article aims to identify which discou...

In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in four Spanish newspapers: two published in mainland Spain – El Mundo and El País – and two published in Catalonia – La Vanguardia and ARA . By doing a qualitative study of newspapers, this article aims to identify which disc...

Women have historically been underrepresented in politics. However, in the last few decades, more and more women have been elected to both upper and lower houses, particularly in Spain. Social media has become one >of the main channels for women to gain visibility, but the issue of unequal distribution of power and influence between men and women r...

El ejercicio del periodismo experimentó una profunda y continua renovación en la prensa no diaria española durante los años de la transición política a la democracia. En este artículo se presentan las interpretaciones de esos cambios a partir de la visión de los profesionales que producían los proyectos editoriales. Los resultados han sido obtenido...

En un escenario complejo y marcado por grandes transformaciones, la rendición de cuentas de los medios (media accountability) adquiere valor fundamental para recuperar la confianza de la opinión pública respecto al periodismo y a sus profesionales. Mediante la triangulación de métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos, esta investigación ahonda en la re...

This article is a follow-up to an article published in the American Behavioral Scientist in 2017, titled “Shaping public opinion for confrontation: Catalan independence claims as represented in Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, and Basque Editorials.” At that time, our study was based on opinions expressed in mainstream newspaper editorials during two s...

If the origin of what is currently known as the “Procés” of independence of Catalonia had to be specified, we would probably coincide in locating it in July 2010, when the ruling of the Constitutional Court against the Statute was made public. On 10 July 2010, a massive demonstration took place in Barcelona against that ruling, which meant some imp...

This study describes the relations between the press and political power, during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s, focusing on discursive relations between political actors with power or challenging power and the media which interpreted their developments. It analyses how the main media, in the discourse of their news stories a...

Introducción: En el presente trabajo se analizan las presiones que desde la política se han ejercido o intentado ejercer sobre el periodismo. Metodología: A partir de la combinación de metodologías cualitativas, como los grupos de discusión con ciudadanos, y cuantitativas, como encuestas a las profesionales, se analiza cómo esta influencia de la po...

We describe partial results from a study on the construction of the international image of the political process in Catalonia in recent years in the main European and the US newspapers. In particular, using several analytical techniques we determine the presence of civil society organisations for and against independence in press articles between J...

The Catalan sovereignty process has been a topic of interest in the mass media worldwide in recent years. We analysed nearly 900 stories, published between 10 June 2010 and 4 October 2017 by the main newspapers of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, for content in terms of genres, frames and journalistic sources. We al...

Political events in Catalonia from 2010 to the present have marked part of the Spanish and EU media agenda and have resonated in the international media. We analysed German, French and UK media coverage and opinions of foreign correspondents regarding the Catalan independence movement for the period 2010 to 2017. We analysed press representations o...

Los acontecimientos sociales y políticos que se han sucedido a lo largo de los últimos años en Cataluña han constituido uno de los temas que han tenido un gran eco en la agenda española y europea. La investigación que aquí se presenta tiene como objetivo central el análisis de esta cobertura informativa (géneros de información, opinión e interpreta...

Editorials represent a newspaper’s principal means of ideological positioning and serve to identify the attitude of each newspaper and its readership to some of the main actors in any given conflict, especially those that are political in nature. Catalonia’s independence movement has experienced a surge in recent years. The turning point came in Ju...

In this paper, we study El Huecco's song "Se acabaron las lágrimas" (The tears are over) with a double objective. On the one hand, we intend to understand how songs, and other cultural manifestations, can be used as a response to given social problems, such as gender-based violence. On the other hand, we intend to identify the discourse strategies...

El artículo estudia los discursos periodísticos sobre el encaje catalán y vasco que proyectaban los diarios ABC, El País, La Vanguardia, Avui, El Correo y Deia en un período que va desde noviembre de 1975 hasta octubre de 1979. A través del enfoque multidisciplinar que permite el análisis crítico del discurso (ACD), se ha constatado que los rotativ...

Els mitjans de comunicació són dispositius narratius fonamentals per comprendre les representacions socials de la nació en l’esfera pública. Aquest llibre ens endinsa en l’estudi pràctic i analític d’una temàtica d’actualitat com són les narratives mediàtiques del catalanisme, i ho fa amb relació a dos processos històrics: l’Estatut d’Autonomia del...

L’interdiction de la corrida, votée par le parlement autonome de Catalogne en 2010, a été à l’origine d’une grande controverse en Espagne. Cet article analyse la couverture de l’événement dans quatre journaux issus du centre et de la périphérie, dans le but de déterminer s’ils se sont emparés du débat pour conforter leur discours identitaire respec...

Platforms like Twitter have opened up new spaces for public opinion and mobilization to support social campaigns. Based on a qualitative exploratory approach, the research focuses on the covering of social issues in order to assess the informative and mobilizing capacities of Twitter. The content analysis focuses on tweets and also on pieces from t...

This article intends to contribute to the debate on whether Twitter can be a complementary tool or an alternative to traditional media. Based on a qualitative and quantitative exploratory approach, the research focuses on the coverage of social issues to explore the informative capacities of Twitter. The sample consists of more than 1000 tweets cov...

La opinión de muchos lectores de prensa digital española se expresa en los comentarios. El artículo es un estudio de las reacciones emitidas por los lectores a propósito de la propuesta de la Ley Wert (durante el mes de mayo de 2013). Las principales conclusiones que se extraen del análisis es que la participación (1) es escasamente complementaria...

Catalonia’s ban on bullfighting, which was passed by the Parliament in July 2010, caused a political and media commotion. This study analyses the arguments provided by the Spanish press with the aim of verifying how the media is involved in the conflict, accentuating the distance between advocates and abolitionists of the bullfighting tradition. Th...

The opinion of many digital Spanish newspapers readers is expressed in comments. This article is a study of the users' reaction about the 'Ley Wert' proposal (during May 2013). The main conclusion showed up from the analysis is: (1) the participation is scarcely supplementary to the professional labour; and (2) it does not contribute, in our study,...

Resumen: El objetivo fundamental de este artículo es el de definir la estructura de la comuni-cación audiovisual actual, fruto de unas coordenadas contextuales de carácter político, tecnoló-gico y también social. Nos centraremos en el análisis de la estructura del sistema multimedial global que interfiere directamente en los procesos de producción...

Who’s there? A human figure projected against the light in the mist: is this figure still the main character of media information? Journalism erected itself on the contradiction between an unreachable objectivity and a silenced subject. Is it time to change the model from “daily” to “diary”? This individual in the shadow, what does he want? What sh...