Discursive construction of the actors in the informative chronicles about the student’s movement in El Mercurio de Valparaíso and El Martutino between May and December 2011
In the last months, thousands of people went out to the streets of the main cities in the
country to demand structural changes in higher and secondary education, putting pressure
on the relationships between educational and political - economic actors, which was also
reflected in social media.
his work is aimed at describing and comparing , by means of a Critical and Complex
Discourse Analysis (CCDA), the discursive construction of the actors of the student’s
movement made by two means of the V Region, El Mercurio de Valparaíso and El Martutino,
through their chronicles (a total of 299), published between May and December 2011.
The study showed the configuration of three important actors (“Students”, “Authorities”
and “Police force”), defined by several aspects. Among the conclusions, it was possible to
determine that, in spite of the opposite journalistic dynamics of both means, El Mercurio de
Valparaíso and El Martutino, share similar discursive constructions of the actors appearing
in their journalistic discourses.
Keywords:
El Mercurio de Valparaíso, El Martutino, Student Movement, Stakeholders, Discursive Construction
Gascón i Martín, F., & Pacheco, C. (2012). Discursive construction of the actors in the informative chronicles about the student’s movement in El Mercurio de Valparaíso and El Martutino between May and December 2011. Comunicación Y Medios, (25), Pág. 115 – 129. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i25.26173
