Medios de comunicación, referencias nominales y poder en Paraguay

Rubén  Juste de Ancos; Lorraine  Soler; Mario Ortí Mata

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2014-1010

Authors

Rubén Juste de Ancos Simón Bolívar Andean University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2004-2403
Lorraine Soler Buenos Aires' University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5845-2737
Mario Ortí Mata Complutense University of Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8693-2698

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2014-1010

Keywords:

Elections, Paraguay, Social Network Analysis, news media

Abstract

This research study aims to empirically address the political dynamics reflected on Paraguay’s print press during the 2013 elections campaign. Method. This empirical study is based on the social network analysis of the name references included in a sample of news articles. Results. The results of the study include several graphical representations of the coverage of political actors during the 2013 elections campaign, which was strongly conditioned by the previous impeachment and removal of former President Fernando Lugo. Conclusions. This study of name references confirms the continuity of the traditional parties in Paraguay as institutions with political and media power, and the secondary and peripheral role of the actors that emerged in the political landscape when Fernando Lugo won the presidency of Paraguay.

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Author Biographies

Rubén Juste de Ancos, Simón Bolívar Andean University

Ruben Juste holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (2009), a Master’s degree in Research Methodology in Social Sciences (2011) and a Doctoral degree in Sociology, all from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Specialist in methods of social network analysis (University of Ljubljana, University of Michigan). Former Professor of research methods at the Catholic University of Asunción (Paraguay) and the Catholic University of Villarrica (Paraguay).

Currently associate researcher at the Simon Bolivar Andean University of Ecuador.

Author of articles published journals and newspapers about the political process in Paraguay, populism in Latin America, and methods of social network analysis. Former consultant in political communication and social research in several Latin American countries.

Member of the International Social Network Association (ISNAA) and of the European Centre of Political Research (ECPR).

Lorraine Soler, Buenos Aires' University

Lorena Soler holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (2001), a Master’s degree in Social Sciences Research (2009) and a Doctoral degree in Social Sciences (2012), all from the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

Professor of “Social change in Latin America in the 21st century. Social Sciences and new challenges” and “Latin American Social History”. Chief of practical work at the workshop on Research in Historical Sociology of Latin America, which is part of the Bachelor’s degree in Sociology of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Professor in postgraduate study programmes in several national and foreign universities.

Receiver of a Master’s scholarship granted by the Department of Science and Technology of the University of Buenos Aires and doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships granted by Argentina’s National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET). Currently a researcher at the CONICET, based at the Institute for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Collaborator since 1998 in collective research projects directed by Waldo Ansaldi within successive science and technology programmes of the University of Buenos Aires.

Winner of the 2010 Florestan Fernandes Professorship award (CLACSO), to teach along with Dr. Verónica Giordano the postgraduate virtual course on Historical sociology and comparative methods in Latin American Studies.Winner of the 2012 Fals Borda award (CLACSO) to teach the postgraduate virtual course on “Problems and tools of the comparative method and its application in Latin America studies.

Author of articles about Latin America published in books, journals and newspapers. Author of the book La larga invención del golpe. El stronismo y el orden político paraguayo (“The long invention of the coup. Stronism and the Paraguayan political order”), published in 2012 by Imago Mundi (Buenos Aires) and in 2013 by the Training Centre for Regional Integration (CEFIR, Montevideo). Co-editor, with Rocco Carbone, of Franquismo en Paraguay. El golpe(“Francoism in Paraguay. The coup”), published in 2012 by 8vo Loco / Arandura Ediciones (Buenos Aires, Asunción, Madrid).

Member of the editorial board of e-l@tina Online Journal of Latin American Studies, winner of the 2008 Juan Carlos Portantiero Award (CLACSO) and part of the basic core of scientific journals since 2012.

Mario Ortí Mata, Complutense University of Madrid

This research study aims to empirically address the political dynamics reflected on Paraguay’s print press during the 2013 elections campaign. Method. This empirical study is based on the social network analysis of the name references included in a sample of news articles. Results. The results of the study include several graphical representations of the coverage of political actors during the 2013 elections campaign, which was strongly conditioned by the previous impeachment and removal of former President Fernando Lugo. Conclusions. This study of name references confirms the continuity of the traditional parties in Paraguay as institutions with political and media power, and the secondary and peripheral role of the actors that emerged in the political landscape when Fernando Lugo won the presidency of Paraguay.

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