Colombia

Los estudios sobre la representación de las minorías en los medios han mostrado que los grupos minoritarios son normalmente infrarrepresentados y estereotipados en la televisión, con papeles menores y ocupaciones de bajo estatus. Son escasos los estudios cuantitativos mexicanos sobre la representación mediática de los grupos minoritarios, como el indígena. Para conocer la imagen televisiva de la población indígena, se realizó un análisis de contenido de los programas de ficción emitidos por las televisoras nacionales durante 2010. Los resultados muestran una baja presencia de personajes indígenas, normalmente en papeles secundarios o de reparto. Se detectaron los rasgos físicos, de apariencia y actitudinales que determinan sus estereotipos. Se discute el posible impacto de esta representación en la imaginería social del colectivo.

México

En este capítulo se presentan algunas ponderaciones que se desprenden del análisis de los resultados obtenidos en una encuesta realizada a jóvenes universitarios sobre el consumo y credibilidad tanto en los medios sociales como en los medios masivos, así como su respectiva participación política en línea y fuera de la misma. Es pertinente tener presente que el capítulo se basa en un estudio piloto de una investigación más amplia, por lo que los resultados presentados deben valorarse como preliminares.

España

Active and effective citizen political participation is one of the main manifestations of the existence of a healthy and well consolidated democracy. It has been found that media consumption is a significant predictor for the development of this civic participation. The Communication Mediation Model (O-S-R-O-R) set out an indirect effect that exposure to media messages have on citizen participation, by means of the development of orientations subsequent to consumption and reasoning of the message. Political sophistication is among these orientations promoted by the media, understood as the general level of knowledge on the political system (factual) or the (electoral) campaign acquired by the citizens under media exposure. With the objective of determining its mediating effect on the increase of citizen participation, an analytical survey was conducted in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico, right after the 2015 gubernatorial elections. Findings reflect a mediating role played by factual political sophistication in explaining offline political and civic participation. However, electoral political sophistication worked better to achieve an indirect effect on online political participation.

Colombia

Mass media plays a crucial role during the election campaigns, because, by promoting a particular framing to present issues and candidates involved in the campaigns citizens are granted access to the political debate. To analyze the political framing carried out by the media during the 2015 gubernatorial election campaign of Nuevo León, Mexico, a content analysis of the news stories published by television and the press was developed. Findings made it possible to detect a different use of news frames by both media. While the frame of strategic game dominated in television, the press emphasized a treatment of conflict. In addition, a moderation effect of the campaign stages was observed in the use of different news frames, increasing the use of strategic game and debate and political agreement frames by television, while the press maintained a constant presence of news frames.

México

Los diferentes capítulos de este libro aportan evidencias sobre las diferentes líneas de investigación que atañen al estudio de la comunicación política actual. Así, se incluyen desde trabajos donde, mediante análisis de contenido, se pone de manifiesto la manera en que la política es cubierta por los medios o es tratada la información relativa a ese ámbito, hasta estudios que revisan el impacto que las variables comunicativas tienen en el desarrollo de las actitudes políticas ciudadanas.

This study explores the use of Facebook by political actors in election campaigns, establishing the extent to which candidates, parties and citizens engaged in online participation through different online tools provided by this social networking site. A comparative content analysis of the Facebook pages of the main candidacies in the election campaigns in Spain (Castilla y León) and Mexico (Nuevo León) in 2015 was carried out. The results reveal a positive relationship between types of engagement, especially in the Mexican campaign, where politicians and users score systematically higher in all variables measuring engagement. However, results also indicate that the citizen engagement was of higher quality/ intensity in the Spanish campaign.

España

Introduction. Stereotypes are socially-structured beliefs about a particular social group, which can be derived from direct or indirect contact with members of that group. In this regard, it has been pointed out that media representations can generate and reinforce stereotypes that lead to the development of more or less prejudiced attitudes. Objectives. This study seeks to examine whether this process occurs with respect to the Mexican indigenous population, in the context of the metropolitan area of Monterrey. Methods. The study combined two methods: the first one consisted of the content analysis of fiction TV programmes in order to identify possible stereotypes about Mexico’s indigenous population; the second instrument was a survey applied to high school students of the metropolitan area of Monterrey in order to investigate the relationship between their beliefs and prejudiced attitudes towards indigenous people. Conclusions. Results confirmed the impact of the consumption of media stereotypes on the level of prejudice towards indigenous people, but not on the stereotyping of this sector of the population.