Image and Health Crisis: The Perfect Storm in Ecuador from COVID-19

Based on a random qualitative exploration of journalistic content, this paper reviews essential narrative axes that connected the image and health crisis from the agenda setting and from social networks, in the public sphere, during the first year of the covid pandemic. -19 in Ecuador.The delimitati...

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Author: Isch, Gustavo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Ecuador
Institution:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repository:Revista de Comunicación y Cultura
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/3959
Online Access:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/uru/article/view/3959
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Opinión pública
agenda setting
redes sociales
desinformación
Public opinion
setting agenda
social network
misinformation
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Summary:Based on a random qualitative exploration of journalistic content, this paper reviews essential narrative axes that connected the image and health crisis from the agenda setting and from social networks, in the public sphere, during the first year of the covid pandemic. -19 in Ecuador.The delimitation of the context in which this process unfolded, and the critical reading of the underlying hegemonic approach in the published information and opinion, have the objective of identifying the communication keys that positioned a collective perception of global crisis, and that even, could have affected the electoral situation of 2021. This research concludes by reflecting on the links that intertwined two specific crises, in a perfect storm.