Rafael Xambó

• Senior Lecturer at University of Valencia

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...

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...

This article describes the main features of the media system in Valencia, and it discusses and interprets the process by which this system has come into being. Particular emphasis is placed on the dominant role played by the political system, which has led to a wide range of bad informative practices, a strong dependence on the leading Spanish medi...

This article tries to fix the central issues about the structure that shape the Valencian Media System, describing and analyzing the process of changes. It shows the domination exercised by the political power that involves a series of bad practices in the news production, a strong dependence of the great Spanish media corporations, significant cul...

La creciente preocupación por la “calidad” de la democracia está suscitando interesantes debates tanto a nivel teórico como a nivel práctico. Ambos planteamientos otorgan a los procesos comúnmente definidos como participativos un papel clave en el proceso de transformación de la democracia. Si en las definiciones teóricas puede ponerse en duda el o...

L'article ressegueix les investigacions en sociologia de la comunicació que s'han realitzat durant les darreres dècades en la sociologia valenciana. La perspectiva que s'adopta es limita a l'àmbit acadèmic i a l'àrea de coneixement. Es considera també que molts dels treballs tractats en altres articles d'aquest monogràfic cauen de ple en el camp de...