Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Ana María Córdoba. Photography and Text in the Framing Construction of the Arab Spring: An Analysis of the 2011 Colombian Press' Media Coverage. OBS* [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.2, pp.149-172. ISSN 1646-5954.

2011 would be remembered as a year packed with protests and world outrage. Images of squares filled with protesters were seen around the world. Since then, this pattern of social demonstration has been happening without interruption. This academic paper analyzes how the Colombian print media covered the Arab Spring. Specifically, this research examines how two Colombian newspapers, El Tiempo and El Espectador, framed the Arab Spring, as starting points of protests. To do this, this research applied a qualitative-quantitative content analysis matrix to the sample. This exploration was complemented by a semiotic analysis of the photographs in order to identify the framing process of these newspapers when covering the Arab protests.

Keywords : Arab Spring; El Tiempo and El Espectador; Content analysis; Semiotic Analysis; Framing.

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