Análisis de los titulares y las fotografías de portada en España en el contexto de la crisis del coronavirus:protagonistas, frames y lenguaje bélico.

Résumé

This research reflects the impact of Covid-19 on the covers of the main generalist newspapers in Spain: El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, and ABCand El Correo. The research, in which 609 headlines and photographs have been coded, focuses on the agenda-setting of these newspapers, the protagonists, the frames and the analysis of the discourse. The methodology followed was content analysis and Nvivo software was used for qualitative analysis. The results show that the media treats the pandemic as a foreign matter. In March, once the crisis floods the front pages, the framework of social and health consequences prevails, but with the passage of time, the frames of solutions and responsibility appear strongly. The usual role of government actors is maintained, but the exposure of civil society grows, especially in photographs. The use of warlike language acts as a militarizing agent for civil society. The aesthetics of the pandemic is visualized on multi-screens, with particular force in those featuring the Kingof Spain or the Prime Minister. The role of the press as a symbolic reconstructor of events is certified, in convergence and tension with the political system, to homogenize discourses and maintain the social cohesion.