Consumo informativo y cobertura mediática durante el confinamiento por el Covid-19: sobreinformación, sesgo ideológico y sensacionalismo // News consumption and media coverage during the confinement by Covid-19: information overload, ideological bias and sensationalism

Masip, Pere, Aran-Ramspott, Sue, Ruiz-Caballero, Carlos, Suau, Jaume, Almenar, Ester and Puertas-Graell, David Consumo informativo y cobertura mediática durante el confinamiento por el Covid-19: sobreinformación, sesgo ideológico y sensacionalismo // News consumption and media coverage during the confinement by Covid-19: information overload, ideological bias and sensationalism. Profesional de la información, 2020, vol. 29, n. 3. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has confined millions of citizens in their homes. The situation of isolation has many consequences at multiple levels: social, psychological, economic, educational..., and also communicative. Based on a survey to 1,122 people during the most severe confinement phase, this article aims to analyze how information consumption has been modified during this period of time, and how citizens assess media coverage of Covid-19. The results show citizenship get more news and more frequently than before the health crisis. All in all, citizens maintain a critical attitude towards media coverage of the outbreak, which is, according to the results, conditioned by the media ideology, and reported in a sensationalist way, generating unnecessary social alarm.

Spanish abstract

La declaración del estado de alarma por la pandemia del Covid-19 ha confinado a millones de ciudadanos en sus domicilios. La situación de aislamiento tiene enormes consecuencias en múltiples niveles: social, psicológico, económico, educativo..., y también comunicativo. A partir de una encuesta realizada a 1.122 personas durante la fase de confinamiento más severa, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo el consumo informativo se ha visto modificado durante este período de tiempo y cómo perciben los ciudadanos la cobertura mediática realizada por los medios de comunicación. Los resultados muestran que la ciudadanía se informa más y con mayor frecuencia que antes de la crisis sanitaria. Con todo, mantiene una actitud crítica con la información que proporcionan los medios, que realizan una cobertura condicionada por la línea editorial, de forma sensacionalista y generando alarma social innecesaria.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Covid-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; News consumption; News use; Media coverage; Sensationalism; Informational bias; Health crisis; News media; Spain; Covid-19; Coronavirus; Pandemias; Consumo informativo; Cobertura mediática; Sensacionalismo; Sesgo informativo; Crisis sanitaria; Medios de comunicación; España.
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication
Depositing user: Tomàs Baiget
Date deposited: 10 Jul 2020 11:38
Last modified: 10 Jul 2020 11:38
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40133

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