Politics, Twitter and Covid-19: Perception of foreign tourism during de-escalation in Spain in Díaz Ayuso's political campaign

Percepção do turismo estrangeiro durante a desescalada em Espanha na campanha política de Díaz Ayuso

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.84891
Keywords: social media, data journalism, twitter, de-escalation, electoral campaign

Abstract

Our proposal aims to analyze, using quantitative and qualitative digital tools, the messages that dealt with the arrival of foreign tourists, and the words that were used in the tweets in this regard, in the spring of 2021, coinciding with the elections to the Community of Madrid, whose president Díaz Ayuso revalidated her presidency. It is therefore an analysis that is of journalistic and political interest, and which provides us with an insight into the institutional state of the country. In this study we focus on key words, i.e. significantly more frequent in the study corpus than in the comparison corpus, as well as on the combinations of significantly frequent words, using the Sketch Engine application, which calculates a score for each element. We provide clues to understand how deep the mechanism of public opinion generation is in the networks, at a time when it is no longer the monopoly of journalism.

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Author Biography

Manuel Blanco Pérez, Universidad de Sevilla

Manuel Blanco (Seville, 1980) has a degree in Hispanic Philology (US) and a PhD in Literature and Communication (US). A university lecturer since 2008, he has taught Communication, Film, Photography, Literature and Journalism at the Universities of Cadiz and Huelva. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Journalism II in the Faculty of Communication at the University of Seville. He is accredited as a full professor by ANECA. As a researcher, he is the author of numerous high impact scientific articles and half a dozen academic books, including: Cine y Semiótica (University of Salamanca, 2020), Nuevo cine andaluz (Comunicación Social, 2020) and El Proyecto Fotográfico (University of Seville, 2022). As a photojournalist, he is the author of several literary works and photographic exhibitions: Diario Disidente de Nueva York (2005), 28 Rue Levert (2008) and Cuando todo el universo nos tenía en el olvido (2011). The film Al sur del sur is his feature film debut as a director and screenwriter (SEFF 2018 and Festival Iberomericano de Cine 2019, currently on Filmin.es).

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Published
2023-09-07
How to Cite
Blanco Pérez M. (2023). Politics, Twitter and Covid-19: Perception of foreign tourism during de-escalation in Spain in Díaz Ayuso’s political campaign: Percepção do turismo estrangeiro durante a desescalada em Espanha na campanha política de Díaz Ayuso. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 29(3), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.84891
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Vol. 29 No. 3 (2023)
Section
Studies

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