Exploring news frames, sources and editorial lines on newspaper coverage of nuclear energy in Spain

Autor: Àngels Álvarez-Villa, María-Teresa Mercado-Sáez, Elisa Marco-Crespo
Přispěvatelé: UCH. Departamento de Comunicación e Información Periodística, UCH. Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad, Producción Científica UCH 2019
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: CEU Repositorio Institucional
Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU (FUSPCEU)
ISSN: 1752-4032
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2018.1435558
Popis: Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la página web de la revista en la siguiente URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2018.1435558 Este artículo pertenece a un número especial que lleva por título "Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public". This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Mercado-Sáez, MT., Marco-Crespo, E. & Álvarez-Villa, À. (2019). Exploring news frames, sources and editorial lines on newspaper coverage of nuclear energy in Spain. Environmental Communication. Londrés (Reino Unido) : Informa UK. Vol. 13, n. 4 (2019), pp. 546-559, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1435558 Este es el pre-print del siguiente artículo: Mercado-Sáez, MT., Marco-Crespo, E. & Álvarez-Villa, À. (2019). Exploring news frames, sources and editorial lines on newspaper coverage of nuclear energy in Spain. Environmental Communication. Londrés (Reino Unido) : Informa UK. Vol. 13, n. 4 (2019), pp. 546-559, que se ha publicado de forma definitiva en https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1435558 Five nuclear power plants with seven reactors operate in Spain, one of the countries in the EU in which support for nuclear power is weaker. For understanding the public debate about nuclear energy is essential to know media discourse. The aims of this investigation are to find out how news is provided on nuclear power from an environmental point of view, who are the sources is the nuclear debate and to determine the editorial line with regard to the use of nuclear power in the seven national Spanish newspaper during five years (2008-2012). Applying the technique of content analysis for data collection, a qualitative analysis is carried out which identifies news frames a priori defined taking a deductive approach. The results show that the environmental perspective on nuclear power is relatively unusual. Using an ecoefficient frame, it is defined as a clean source of energy. Politicians play the greatest role and party political use is made of the nuclear power issue. Spanish nuclear coverage emphasizes the views of interest groups rather than those of scientists and other experts, ecologists or citizens. Thus, the press doesn´t play the substantive role in public deliberation and doesn´t connect with the different interests and sensitivities existing in the public sphere about nuclear energy. Preprint
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