The Role of the Media Agenda in a Context of Political Polarization

Juan Jesús González ^[1] ; Amparo Novo ^[2]
1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  
  Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  
  Madrid, España
2. [2] Universidad de Oviedo
  
  Universidad de Oviedo
  
  Oviedo, España
Localización: Comunicación y sociedad = Communication & Society, ISSN-e 2386-7876, ISSN 0214-0039, Vol. 24, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 131-147
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This article addresses the role of the media agenda in the context of political polarization that has predominated in Spain over the last decade. Starting from a first hypothesis regarding the relationship between political polarization and the median voter, the article focuses not only on the ability of the media to impose and manage a specific thematic agenda, obsessively concentrated on terrorism, but also to make the government responsible for the subjects on the agenda, as can be seen from the dominant framing of terrorism:weakness and concession.