Domination Relationship Through Urban Ecology and Mass Media: How the Media Turn Social Protests into a Cost–benefit Discourse
摘要
The article is based on an investigation into the media coverage of a mass media in Spain in relation to socio-territorial conflict and social mobilizations. The initial hypothesis is that these media construct and modify the information looking for the maximum benefit and their own power interests away from the material and ecological well-being of the social majority. The methodology, from a structuralist sociological approach to communication and the new theories of mass communication, mixes quantitative techniques (review and documentary analysis) and qualitative techniques (analysis of discourses). The results confirm that the media construct their informative processes around the obtaining of benefits, where the news stands out with a high content of speculation and the application of a differentiating narrative that excludes alternative themes, social actors and environment.