Enfoques periodísticos y marcos de participación política. Una aproximación conjunta a la teoría del encuadre

Abstract

Social movements and the media acquire an increasing role in the public sphere; they broaden posibilities to noninstitutional actors. However, movements and the media promote and spread difference ways of world understanding, and they do that with what is called by the academical research as frames. Over the last decades framing theory has been tried to give an explanation for the social construction of reality through meanings and interpretations. This work shows the similiraties and differences of this theory in two areas —social movements and media— which have not been always studied together. Moreover, a paradigm case is shown as case study, where colective action frames and media frames work together. This is the case of the kidnapping and murder of Miguel Angel Blanco in Spain. From this case, we arrive to some conclusions which allow us to clear out new research trends and ways to apply frames.