Power Hierarchies and Visibility in the News: Exploring Determinants of Politicians’ Presence and Prominence in the Chilean Press (1991–2019)

IF 4.1 1区社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION International Journal of Press-Politics Pub Date : 2022-03-29 DOI:10.1177/19401612221089482

Ximena Orchard, Bastián González-Bustamante

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This article studies determinants of political actors’ visibility in the news, and their stability over time, observing the press coverage received by Chilean politicians in the elite press since the beginning of the democratic transition in 1991 and until 2019. In dialogue with theories of news values, we test how political positions in a markedly presidential system, the belonging to a government coalition, gender, and the association to conflict frames behave as determinants of the presence and prominence of politicians in the news in the three decades following the recovery of democracy in Chile. We have three key findings. Firstly, the visibility of political actors in the news follows a clear institutional hierarchy led by the president and cabinet members. Secondly, female politicians are less likely to be mentioned or have speaking space in newspapers than male politicians. Lastly, although an association with conflict-framed news boosts politicians’ visibility, such association is unable to disturb structural power hierarchies, and the value of conflict does not increase over time.

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新闻中的权力等级和可见性:探索政治家在智利新闻界的存在和突出的决定因素(1991-2019)

本文研究了政治行为者在新闻中的知名度及其随时间推移的稳定性的决定因素，观察了自1991年民主过渡开始到2019年智利政界人士在精英媒体中的新闻报道。在与新闻价值观理论的对话中，我们测试了在智利民主恢复后的三十年里，明显的总统制中的政治立场、政府联盟的归属、性别以及与冲突框架的联系如何成为政治家在新闻中存在和突出的决定因素。我们有三个关键发现。首先，政治行为者在新闻中的知名度遵循由总统和内阁成员领导的明确的制度等级制度。其次，与男性政治家相比，女性政治家不太可能被提及或在报纸上有发言空间。最后，尽管与冲突新闻的联系提高了政客的知名度，但这种联系不会扰乱结构性的权力等级制度，冲突的价值也不会随着时间的推移而增加。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.