Dealing with the crisis: Income inequality and digital media in the Basque Country (2008-2018)
- Autores: Javier Díaz Noci, Laura Pérez Altable
- Localización: X Congreso Internacional de Ciberperiodismo: Profesionales y audiencias en el ecosistema móvil / Koldobika Meso Ayerdi (ed. lit.), Simón Peña Fernández (ed. lit.), Ainara Larrondo Ureta (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 978-84-1319-075-4, págs. 86-101
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The global economic crisis, and the austerity measures held in the European Union as a conse-quence, have had a different impact in the different countries and territories of the Continent. In a com-parative framework which will examine the treatment of one aspect multiplied by the crisis, such as in-come inequality (both inequality between nations and countries and amongst individuals and social classes in one single state. This because the Basque Country, as part of the Kingdom of Spain, a state whose structure is almost federal (composed by regions with a great level of self-government, called “autonomies”), enjoys a different tax freedom unique in Spain and in Europe, the so-called economic concert, once rejected and in present times claimed by some other regions like Catalonia, which presum-edly allowed the Basque Autonomous Community a better position to face the impact of the crisis. As a hypothesis and using qualitative designed content analysis (QDA) we will try to prove that the treat-ment provided to this specific topic was different and biased by this circumstance when compared with the general informative framework of the geographic, economic and political area of influence.
