RT Journal Article
T1 Framing Political Change A comparative analysis of the role played by media in the political transitions of Spain (1981) and the German Democratic Republic (1989)
A1 Martín Jiménez, Virginia
A1 Ramos Arenas, Fernando
AB This article chooses a comparative approach in order to analyze the role played by mass media during the attempted coup d’état in Spain starting on 23 February 1981 and the opening of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Both episodes demonstrate the media's capacity to articulate political change through their contextualization of particular events. The text focuses on the capacity of the media to frame political episodes, to generate interpretations and thus provide the basis for specific reactions in different audience groups or political instances. For a short period of time (limited to just some hours), the radio and the press in Spain as well as television in East Germany assumed a ‘para-political’ role and set certain events in motion that led to the end of the coup and the fall of the Wall respectively.
PB Routldege / Taylor & Francis
SN 1368-8804
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95914
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95914
LA eng
NO Ramos Arenas, Fernando, y Virginia Martín Jiménez. «Framing Political Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Role Played by Media in the Political Transitions of Spain (1981) and the German Democratic Republic (1989)». Media History 26, n.o 2 (2 de abril de 2020): 215-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2018.1482203.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025