From Scheherazade's strategy to paranoia. The case of the Estado de Alarma TV and La Última Hora
Abstract
Digital media can guide political discourse among their followers in a very persuasive way, and this enables the creation of new “partisan media” that redefine the deliberative media logic. Estado de Alarma TV and La Última Hora, located in opposite ideological spaces, are examples of the new Spanish partisan media in the digital public sphere. Using content analysis and a non-parametric statistical process based on inter-judge reliability calculations, this research analysed a total of 603 Última Hora (n=301) and Estado de Alarma TV (n= 302) publications, obtaining data on the deliberative and non-deliberative mediation of their discourses and the extent to which they may have reached a conspiratorial and paranoid conception of political reality. The main findings show that conspiracy theories and abstract narratives may contain deliberative elements. Moreover, non-deliberative elements fulfil social functions that transcend the logic of disinformation and domination to impose their own alternative factual reality.
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