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Another violent protest?: new perspectives to understand protest coverage
(2022) Proust, Valentina; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina
This study assesses the relationship between two well-established sets of frames to better understand the news coverage of massive political protests. By relying on Semetko and Valkenburg’s generic frames and McLeod and Hertog’s protest frames, this study aims to identify whether certain generic frames emphasized in news stories increase the tendency to delegitimize protest movements. To this end, we analyzed the news coverage of Chile’s Estallido Social, a series of massive political demonstrations that developed across the country from October to December 2019. Data for this study come from stories published by Radio Bío Bío, the most trusted news outlet in the country, according to Reuters Institute. By analyzing a sample of 417 stories, we found the coverage replicated patterns that usually delegitimize protest movements, as many of the stories focused on violent acts and depicted demonstrators as deviant from the status quo. We also found a direct relationship between generic frames and protest frames, in which the presence of the former determines that of the latter. Generic frames provide information about how the news media interpret and package the news, which in turn affects demonstration-related features that the news media pay attention to. As such, we argue that combining both generic and issue-specific frames is a helpful approach to understanding the complexities of protest news coverage.
Attribute Agenda Setting and Information Overload: Computer-Assisted Analysis for Understanding Compelling Arguments
(2017) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina
Comunicación política de los matinales chilenos en contexto electoral: personalización, conflicto y políticas públicas al debate
(2025) Walker Budge, Magdalena; Mujica, Constanza; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Comunicaciones
Este estudio de carácter mixto entrega una revisión de matinales televisivos chilenos en contexto electoral. El análisis de contenido muestra que estos programas, durante el periodo 2020-2021, integraron la comunicación política de manera cotidiana en sus emisiones. Esta incorporación se dio en el marco de tendencias como el politainment y la personalización política, lo que permitió que numerosos actores políticos aparecieran en pantalla, con una presencia emocional y, en ocasiones, incluso humorística. Las temáticas y debates estuvieron estrechamente ligados a los procesos electorales en curso y a la implementación de diversas políticas públicas, relegando a un segundo plano las disputas ideológicas y partidistas. Asimismo, la televisión matinal priorizó diferentes encuadres (frames), dependiendo de los diversos hitos electorales estudiados. En cuanto a los televidentes, consultados en focus groups, mostraron un alto nivel de atención hacia los contenidos transmitidos, exigiendo, sobre todo, transparencia, compromiso y honestidad en la gestión pública. Si bien la simpatía y las anécdotas fueron bien recibidas, los participantes subrayaron la importancia de que se cumpliera con la función pública de manera íntegra. Así, los matinales se configuraron como un puente entre las personas y el contexto político, contribuyendo a visibilizar los problemas nacionales, pero al mismo tiempo exigiendo probidad en su resolución.
Credibility Gaps and Public Opinion in a Competitive Media Environment: The Case of Arab Satellite TV News in Lebanon
(2017) Nisbet, Erik C.; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Johnson, Thomas J.; Golan, Guy; Day, Anita
Engaging with the news : incivility, disagreement, and deliberation in Chilean news comments
(2020) Rosenberg Benadretti, Andrés Alejandro; Valenzuela, Sebastián; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Comunicaciones
Although it is not a novel issue, uncivil attitudes and expressions have been at the center of communication research. Most specifically, the amount and extension of online incivility has been pointed as being detrimental to democratic values such as engaging in disagreement and deliberation without insulting others. Unfortunately, the idea that online spaces for citizens to discuss about pubic issues, such as news comments, have not delivered promising results, and incivility is pointed as one of the main handicaps. This dissertation studies three key variables related to online discussion: incivility, disagreement, and deliberation. Previous research has focused on relating either incivility with deliberation, or incivility with disagreement. However, disagreement and deliberation are closely related; with disagreement described as being either a consequence or an antecedent of deliberation. Therefore, I expect to have a more holistic understanding of how online discussion between strangers takes place when important social and political issues are at stake. To better respond to hypotheses and questions related to these three variables and how they affect online discussion, I divided this thesis into a two-step design with two different quantitave techniques: Study 1 sees a content analysis of news comments related to a Chilean presidential election in December 2017, while Study 2 brings an experiment embedded into a survey with a representative sample of Chilean population. While the first study focused on the frequency of each variable and how they relate to each other, the second analyzed two possible outcomes from the exposition of different levels of (in)civility and (dis)agreement: negative emotions and online participation. Results from the first study saw a whopping 41% of online incivility, when previous research conducted in the Global North usually average 30%. Moreover, disagreement was four times as common as deliberation, suggesting that at least in this sample disagreement is neither an antecedent nor a consequence of deliberation. Finally, uncivil disagreement is more common than civil disagreement, which reaffirms the notion that manifesting a disagreement would be the intended outcome, while the civility of the message is more related to the way in which the comment is presented. The experiment served the purpose of proving that uncivil disagreement comments produce negative emotions. In fact, both of the groups that were exposed to uncivil comments (with or without disagreement,) experienced an arousal of negative emotions such as anger and anxiety, in comparison to the groups that read either civil agreement or civil disagreement comments. One of positive outcomes that is usually mentioned in the literature when discussing incivility was also tested, so participants were expected to be more willing to participate in online actions such as putting a like/dislike in the comment, or posting another comment, after reading an uncivil post. However, this thesis was not supported as there was no association between the levels of incivility and willingness to further participate online. Among different explanations, a third variable like social trust could be mediating the relationship between the exposure to uncivil comments and willingness to online participation (e.g. users low in social trust putting less trust in others at the forum.) This dissertation matters in a context where democratic societies wonder if it is possible to have spaces for citizens to engage in public discussion without an important amount of incivility. Upon reading this thesis, I hope the reader would take a more comprehensive way of how political issues are being discussed online in a context accustomed to little-to-none moderation, and how these forums do not only involve the users who actively participate on them, but also can have detrimental effects on readers wanting to learn the opinion of their peers on issues that are important to them.
From access deprivation to skill acquisition: Cluster analysis of user behavior in face of a 12-hour legal blockage of WhatsApp in Brazil
(2020) Santos, Marcelo Luis Barbosa; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Rosenberg Benadretti, Andrés Alejandro
Journalism-Business Tension in Swedish Newsroom Decision Making
(2016) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Silvie, George; Mcgregor, Shannon
Latin American Investigative Journalism Education: Learning Practices, Learning Gaps.
(2017) Schmitz Weiss, Amy; De Macedo Higgins, Vanessa; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Calmon Alves, Rosental
Peripheral elaboration model : The impact of incidental news exposure on political participation
(2020) Shahin, S.; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Gil de Zúñiga, H.
Reporting in Latin America: Issues and perspectives on investigative journalism in the region
(2018) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Mourao, Rachel R.
Sharing the Stage. Analysis of social media adoption by Latin American journalists.
(2017) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; De Macedo Higgins Joyce, Vanessa; Schmitz Weiss, Amy; Calmon Alves, Rosental
Social Media as a Public Space for Politics : Cross-National Comparison of News Consumption and Participatory Behaviors in the United States and the United Kingdom
(2015) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; McGregor, Shannon C.; Gil De Zúñiga, Homero
Stronger and Safer Together : Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America
(2020) Cueva Chacón, L. M.; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina
Subversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxy
(2021) Santos, Marcelo; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Tsyganova, Ksenia
Internet, social media, and app shutdowns have become frequent, not only in authoritarian states but also in emerging and fragile democracies. As Russian authorities enforced a legal blockage to Instant Messenger Telegram during the past 2 years, many users kept using the app seamlessly thanks to what we call a subversive affordance: a built-in proxy functionality that allows users to seamlessly circumvent the blockage. We claim it is subversive because it allows users to overcome the blockage as the consequence of the app’s development, with a significant fraction of users who did not have to take action to bypass the blockage. By conducting an online survey and performing a meta-cluster analysis, we found a group we labeled the undeprived: people that, despite presenting traits frequently associated with digital divides—such as gender, age, and low levels of digital skills—were able to keep using the app.
Support for protests in Latin America : classifications and the role of online networking
(2016) Mourao, Rachel R.; Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; McGregor, Shannon; Zeh, Adrian D.
When Gaps Become Huuuuge: Donald Trump and Beliefs About Immigration
(2018) Saldaña Villa, Magdalena Carolina; Chacon, Lourdes M. Cueva; Garcia-Perdomo, Victor

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