Representación de la discapacidad en la prensa digital española

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to analyze which is the current state of disabled people representation in the Spanish digital press. It has been used a methodological triangulation that has combined documental analysis, the interview with expert sources and content analysis of two hundred news about disability in 2019. This information has been analyzed on the basis of an indicator chart that has taken into account parameters such as the medium in which the information is broadcast, the journalistic genre, the section in which it is found, the source of information, the type of disability treated in the news and which are the most represented disabilities, the number and biological sex of the protagonists and the approach. The results have shown that 70 % of the analysed media abided by the guidelines described in the publication Guía de estilo sobre discapacidad para profesionales de la comunicación by Spanish Real Patronato sobre Discapacidad.