¿Videomalestar o círculo virtuoso? Una primera aproximación empírica a la exposición mediática y el compromiso político en España y Alemania

Abstract

The conclusions of a group of analysis developed o the political communication discipline during the nineties, have questioned the response offered by the Media Malasie to an issue configured as a constant in the academic debate; the relationship between mass media exposure and political engagement. While some authors ascribed to the classic viewpoint of videomalaise accuse the media of “narcotising” citizens, who are increasingly less participative, less interested in public affairs and, in the terms of Robert Putnam, disaffected democrats, some other observers state that the empirical evidence points out in the apposite direction. Taking the cited framework as a reference, this article tries to approximate empirically to the Spanish and German cases from a comparative perspective.