2. Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU

The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that, over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted less space to the Paralympic Games than to any other sport.

El discurso de los medios sobre la energía nuclear es esencial para entender la formación de la opinión pública en un asunto altamente científico-técnico. Esta investigación analiza el papel de los científicos como actores en el debate nuclear a través de su presencia como fuente periodística. Las unidades de análisis han resultado 234 textos publicados tres meses antes y tres después del accidente nuclear en Japón en los diarios españoles El País y ABC. Los resultados demuestran que los científicos como actores principales quedan relegados frente a políticos, ciudadanos, industria y ecologistas. Sin embargo, su protagonismo determina el encuadre noticioso: acentúa claramente el riesgo ambiental y minimiza el beneficio económico, todo lo contrario que en el caso de los políticos. The media discourse on nuclear power is essential for understanding how public opinion is formed on such a highly technical-scientific issue. This research focuses on analysing the role of scientists as claimants in the debate on nuclear power, through their presence in the press as a source of information. Following analysis, a total of 234 articles have been published in the Spanish newspapers El País and ABC during the three months prior to and the three months following the nuclear accident in Japan. The results indicate that scientists, as actors claimants, are relegated behind politicians, citizens, industry and ecologists. However, their prominence is decisive in the news setting: clearly emphasising the environmental risk and downplaying the financial benefit, as opposed to the case of the politicians.

El análisis de los encuadres noticiosos se ha convertido en una herramienta básica para entender las estructuras cognitivas que construyen la realidad social en sus múltiples facetas. El objetivo de esta investigación es desvelar los encuadres básicos y los encuadres genéricos que definen el tratamiento de las denominadas Enfermedades Raras (ER) en la prensa española de difusión nacional. El análisis de contenido de 216 piezas informativas sobre las ER publicadas en El País, El Mundo y ABC desde agosto de 2010 a septiembre de 2012, ha determinado que en gran medida el problema de las ER es presentado como una realidad social compleja en lugar de cómo una enfermedad más. El interés humano basado en la personalización de las informaciones es el encuadre genérico más importante. Estos resultados pueden contribuir a una mayor visibilización social de las ER. The news frame analysis has become a basic tool to understand the cognitive structures that construct social reality in its many facets. The objective of this research is to reveal the basic frames and generic frames that define the treatment of rare diseases in the Spanish press. The content analysis of 216 news items about rare diseases published in El País, El Mundo and ABC from August 2010 to September 2012 has been determined to a large extent the problem is presented as a complex social reality rather than how a disease more. Human interest based on personalization of information is the most important generic framing. These results may contribute to greater social visibility of the Rare Diseases.