Título del artículo
News, Media, and Communication in a Polarized World. A Spanish perspective
Autores/as
Dolors Palau Sampio
Guillermo López García
Resumen
News, Media, and Communication in a Polarised World. A Spanish Perspective combines theoretical and empirical approaches to analyse and contextualise the changes that the communication ecosystems, particularly the media, have undergone. The book is an attempt to address the confusion characterising an era of information overabundance—where infinite sources theoretically guarantee enrichment and diversity in the public sphere—while also dealing with the era of post-truth, where misinformation becomes a threat that fuels polarisation and populism.
News, Media, and Communication in a Polarised World. A Spanish Perspective combina enfoques teóricos y empíricos para analizar y contextualizar los cambios que han experimentado los ecosistemas de la comunicación, en particular los medios de comunicación. El libro trata de abordar la confusión que caracteriza a la era de la sobreabundancia informativa, en la que la infinidad de fuentes garantiza teóricamente el enriquecimiento y la diversidad de la esfera pública, al tiempo que aborda la era de la posverdad, en la que la desinformación se convierte en una amenaza que alimenta la polarización y el populismo.
Edita
Springer
Año
2025
Ciudad
Cham
País
Suiza
Páginas
107
Enlace de acceso al contenido
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-86620-3
REFERENCIA COMPLETA
Palau-Sampio, D., López-García, G. (2025). Introduction. In: News, Media, and Communication in a Polarized World. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86620-3_1
ÍNDICE
1. Introduction
1.1. Changes in the Post-media Sphere
2. The New Communication Ecosystem
2.1.How Communication Has Changed: The Impact of Digitalisation
2.2. Old and New Media: The Hybrid Communication Model
2.3. New Actors and Audiences
2.4. The Ambivalence of Mediatisation
3. Fragmentation and Dissolution of the Public Sphere
3.1. The Public Space and Public Sphere
3.2. The Mediasphere: The Public Media Sphere
3.3. The Post-media Public Sphere
4. Challenges in a Hostile Scenario
4.1. Ideological and Emotional Distancing, Belonging, and Exclusion
4.1.1.Polarisation
4.1.2.Populism
4.1.3. Testing Populism and Polarisation
4.2. Disinformation
4.2.2. Perception of Disinformation in Spain
5. Information Consumption and Trust
5.1. Credibility Crisis and Access to News
5.2. Degree of Information and Preferences
5.2.1.Proximity Information
5.2.2. Relevant Topics
5.2.3. Media Type
5.3. Politicisation and Exposure
6. Quality of Information and Democracy
6.1. Definition and Identification
6.2. Perception of Journalistic Quality
6.2.1. The Journalists’ Perspective
6.2.2. Audience Assessment
6.3. How Should Quality Improve?
7. Disruption in the Information Industry: Precariousness and Professional “Decapitalisation”
7.1. The Media’s Multifaceted Crisis
7.2. Business Models and Their Alternatives
7.3. Changes in Structure and Values
7.4. Precarious Work and Its Manifestations
7.5. Experiences in the Spanish Context
8. Conclusions
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