Abstract

ZUNINO, Esteban. News Gap and media concentration: a study about agendas, frames and news consumption on vaccines during Covid-19 in Argentina. Revista de Comunicación [online]. 2022, vol.21, n.1, pp.469-495.  Epub Apr 20, 2022. ISSN 1684-0933.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26441/rc21.1-2022-a24.

This paper analyzes the media agendas on the vaccination process against Covid-19 in the main digital media in Argentina and the consumption of these news on Facebook, the main world´s social network. From a content analysis on the most relevant news in digital media on the subject and on those with the highest level of engagement, it was intended to determine: 1) the thematic composition of both agendas; 2) the differential presence of actors and points of view in the news; 3) the predominant affective attributes in the media treatment and in the public agenda; and 4) the frames that shaped the information in each of the platforms. The results show the existence of news gaps in terms of topics and frames, in a context of a heavily concentrated media environment.

Keywords : digital media; Facebook; agenda setting; framing; Covid-19.

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