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- Title
Xenophobic discourse and agenda-setting. A case study in the press of the Canary Islands (Spain).
- Authors
Borges, Rodrigo F. Rodríguez
- Abstract
Since its formulation by McCombs and Shaw in the 70s, the concept of agenda-setting has proved to be of relevant heuristic value to explore the relationship between the media agenda and the public agenda and the processes of transference between them both. Taking this idea as a reference and basing on the tools of the analysis discourse by Van Dijk, this article shows the strategy of informative dosage developed by the newspaper El Día from Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain) to turn the irregular immigration into the main issue in the civil agenda. The case study is focused on the support given by the newspaper to the call for a demonstration supporting a law of residence as the solution to the arrival of immigrants to the islands. We identified the writing units addressed to the demonstration call, the deliberate chronological sequence used to inform the readers and the editorial declarations supporting the initiative. The analysis lets us appreciate a paradigmatic example of the power of the media to set the political agenda and take in the political parties and the main institutions.
- Subjects
CANARY Islands; XENOPHOBIA in language; DISCOURSE analysis; PRESS; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems
- Publication
Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 2010, Issue 65, p1
- ISSN
1138-5820
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-895-222-230-EN