Impacto y tratamiento de las acciones artísticas de Banksy en la prensa española

Terese Mendiguren Galdospin; Koldobika Meso Ayerdi; Jesús Ángel Pérez Dasilva; María Ganzabal Learreta

doi:10.4185/rlcs-2023-1973

Authors

Terese Mendiguren Galdospin Universidad del País Vasco https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-6608
Koldobika Meso Ayerdi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0400-133X
Jesús Ángel Pérez Dasilva https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3383-4859
María Ganzabal Learreta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4231-402X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2023-1973

Keywords:

urban art; street art; media; Banksy; artist; graffiti; press.

Abstract

Introduction. This paper analyzes the impact of the contents about Banksy in the four main Spanish newspapers. The aim is to detect the treatment that the press makes about this figure and determine if these newspapers publish content in the same proportion, which is the main theme, what are the graphic resources they use, if there are evaluative connotations, etc. Methodology. Some of the hypotheses suggest that Banksy manages to put the media focus on the cause that his actions vindicate and that the more conservative newspapers are more critical and limit the space dedicated to him. All the publications that contain the word Banksy have been anakyzed with a sheet elaborated ad hoc for this study. A total of 2248 items have been recorded, out of 221 pieces analyzed. Results. The ABC newspaper is where the negative evaluative connotations emerges to a greater extent, but also the one that offers the most space to Banksy or his work, followed by El País. The case claimed by Banksy is barely covered by all the newspapers, being null in the case of El Mundo. Conclusions. It is verified that a conservative newspaper such as ABC does not necessarily limit its space to this type of content. In general, the figure of Banksy and his actions, highly adjectived in all the newspapers, take center stage against the cause that he vindicates. The iconic nature of the Banksy concept, used often by newspapers as a brand, can be confirmed.

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Author Biographies

Terese Mendiguren Galdospin, Universidad del País Vasco

Terese Mendiguren is a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She holds a PhD in Journalism from the UPV/EHU. She is Vice Dean of Communication and Social Projection, and Associate Professor at the same University. She has teaching experience in both undergraduate and two official master's degrees: Master's Degree in Multimedia Journalism - El Correo and Master's Degree in Multimedia
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Communication - EITB. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to the citizen participation in the press and media. She has been academic secretary of the Department of Journalism (2015/2021).
The research projects in which he has participated are fundamentally based on the Journalism-social networks binomial. In total, he has been part of eleven research projects and has participated in dozens of national and international conferences. He has also been involved in studies and projects on the incorporation of new technologies in the teaching methodology. She is currently the principal investigator of a project related to inclusive education. Its incorporation into the academic field has been preceded by almost a decade dedicated to professional journalism in the press and television. She has worked as a writer, coordinator and host of television programs.

Koldobika Meso Ayerdi

Koldobika Meso Ayerdi is a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is Director of the same department. He holds a PhD in Journalism and a Master's degree in El Correo from the UPV/EHU.

He has teaching experience in undergraduate subjects in journalistic genres and writing (News genres, Writing and creation of web content), innovation (Media Models) and technology (Print media technology). At postgraduate level, he teaches subjects related to online journalism in Master in Social Communication.

He has published more than a hundred works in the form of chapters, books and articles in quality academic journals, more than twenty of which are included in indexes and impact positions (JCR, Social Science Citation Index, Scopus). He has presented more than hundred papers and communications at national and international conferences.

These publications have been developed in the framework of her continuous participation in more than a dozen research projects funded in competitive public calls, including a European project (Foresight Erasmus+), projects of the Spanish National Research & Development Plan, UPV/EHU university projects, regional projects (Eusko Jaurlaritza/Basque Government) and projects of the Basque Studies Society - Eusko Ikaskuntza. Also, he is the Principal Investigator of the project ‘News, networks and users in the hybrid media system’, together with Dr. Simón Peña Fernández. He has also led Educational Innovation Projects and has participated in another three as a researcher, within the framework of the activities of the KZBerri Educational Innovation Specialised Group, distinguished with an IKD teaching mention by the UPV/EHU's Educational Advisory Service. He has led and participated in several relevant research and transfer contracts with public entities (Euskal Irrati Telebista/Radiotelevisión Pública Vasca). He has four recognised six-year research periods.

He has given teaching lectures at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal, 2013), Porto (Portugal, 2015), Minho (Portugal, 2016), Wroclaw (Polonia, 2017) and the Philological School of Higher Education (Polonia 2019).

Jesús Ángel Pérez Dasilva

He holds a degree (1998) and PhD (2006) in Journalism from the UPV/EHU, where he has been a professor since 2001. He has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (2009-2012), director of the Master's Degree in Social Communication (2016-2018) and member of the University Commission for Teaching Evaluation (2016-2021).

He is a member of the Gureiker research group (group A of the Basque university system). He has been visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (UK, 2012) and at the University of Seville (2010). He has participated in the Erasmus+ program for teaching mobility at the following universities: University of Trieste (Italy, 2011), University of Beira interior (Portugal, 2013), University of Porto (Portugal, 2015), University do Minho (Portugal, 2016), University of Wroclaw (Poland, 2017 and 2019).

He has participated in 20 research projects being in 5 of them the principal investigator. He is co-author of 50 scientific articles (many of them included in listings as JCR or SCOPUS), 32 book chapters and 70 contributions in national and international congresses. He has 3 six-year periods recognized by the CNEAI. His lines of research focus on cyberjournalism, social innovation, design, journalism and social networks.

María Ganzabal Learreta

María Ganzabal Learreta is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a PhD in Journalism and a Master's degree in Digital Documentation from Pompeu Fabra University. She has worked in several communication agencies and in the Art Department of the American magazine New Woman.

Her undergraduate teaching is related to subjects such as Social and Participatory Journalism and Transmedia Narratives. She also teaches at postgraduate level, in the Master of Feminist and Gender Studies and in the Master of Social Communication where she teaches subjects related to gender and journalism.

She has published multiple works in the form of chapters, books and articles in quality academic journals. She has also presented papers and communications at national and international conferences.

These publications have been developed within the research framework of which she is part in more than a dozen research projects funded in competitive public calls, both at the university level, regional and National Plan R + D + I.

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