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Politics, Policy, Populism and Online Media: Investigating Possible (Dis)Connections and Actors in Modern Democracies
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Interpretive Journalism
Publication . Salgado, Susana
Interpretive journalism has been defined in extant research as a style of news reporting that is opposed to descriptive journalism. Rather than simply describing what happened and providing source-driven and fact-focused accounts, it provides journalistic interpretation and analysis through explanations, evaluations, contextualizations, or speculations by the journalist. The prominent role of the journalist in news coverage is linked to the disbelief in value-free facts and in interest-free sources, thus making it necessary to explain the context and interpret the relevance and impact of facts, events, and statements.
Interpretive Journalism
Publication . Salgado, Susana
Interpretive journalism implies that the dominant voice in a news report belongs to the journalist. It can be defined as “going beyond descriptive, fact-focused and source-driven journalism.
News on Events and Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Facebook Users’ Reactions
Publication . Salgado, Susana; Bobba, Giuliano
Aiming to shed light on why Facebook users react to certain events and news stories more than to others, this study analyses their reactions to different events and to the media coverage of those events. The case selection includes six events covered by two newspapers from four countries: France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The research design combines an original content analysis of news media outlets’ posts with an analysis of the reactions that these posts have generated from Facebook users—likes, shares and comments—to assess whether and how the nature of events and the characteristics of the news content contribute to explaining the engagement of Facebook users with the news. The data analysis indicated that the decisions to like, share or comment were not driven by the same factors. Unexpected events showed significance, at different levels, for all kinds of reactions to news. Conversely, the specific features of news content only slightly affected the levels of liking and sharing. Facebook users were more likely to comment on news adhering to known criteria for news values, such as negativity or personalization.
Populism by the people: An analysis of online comments in Portugal and Spain
Publication . Fernández-García, Belén; Salgado, Susana
There exists a gap in research on populism which tends to focus on politicians rather than on the people. This research addresses that by assessing the prevalence of populism and analyses citizens’ populist discourse in online comments in Portugal and Spain. The methodological approach is based on quantitative content analysis and co-occurrence textual analysis. The main findings point to a similar salience of anti-elitism in both countries, despite the differ- ent levels of electoral success of populist parties. These findings suggest that more attention should be paid to the views of citizens in populism research.
The crisis of political representation: the Portuguese case 2002-2015
Publication . Cabral, Manuel Villaverde; Salgado, Susana
Most political science research is concerned with the supply side of politics,
i. e. the ability of political actors to attract supporters; instead, citizenship
research is frequently interested in politics’ demand side, i. e. what citizens ask
from politicians and to what extent are they satisfied with party supply. The
present study addresses the evaluation of political parties and politicians by the
Portuguese citizenry on the basis of a longitudinal analysis of post-electoral
surveys as well as other quantitative data allowing us to measure to which
extent such evaluation fits the features of the “crisis of political representation”
described in extant literature (Porras Nadales 1996). Indeed, in a very recent
article on the concept of Democracy, the Greek political philosopher and
politician Georges Contogeorgis brings the issue of the crisis of political
representation into focus, by reminding us that “the initial political regime
of classic Athens ceased to be fully democratic when it stopped being “the
citizens’ assembly” to become increasingly a matter of representation, which
is by its composition if not by definition an oligarchic institution distinct from
direct participation in the polity. And that was why democracy left Athens in
the early 4th century bc” (Contogeorgis 2017).
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IF/01451/2014/CP1239/CT0004