Beyond objectivity: understanding the persuasive power of multimodal digital news

The chapter explores persuasiveness in news media and argues that news carries an argumentative potential that can be activated in specific contexts to persuade the audience of a particular state-of-affairs or at least to reinforce ideological perspectives. The authors adopt a critical and socio-cog...

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Autores: Alonso Belmonte, Isabel, Porto Requejo, María Dolores|||0000-0003-0111-9356
Tipo de recurso: libro
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:ebuahbibliot::eca70fa2220930244bc914bfa0e20e55
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/69435
https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783112221174-012
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Argumentation
Digital news
Multimodality
News framing
Persuasiveness
Filología
Philology
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Sumario:The chapter explores persuasiveness in news media and argues that news carries an argumentative potential that can be activated in specific contexts to persuade the audience of a particular state-of-affairs or at least to reinforce ideological perspectives. The authors adopt a critical and socio-cognitive approach to discourse analysis to study newsbites, which are short, multimodal digital news items, from "El País" on the far-right’s rise in Europe, particularly concerning the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The analysis focuses on three key components: the newsmaker, the audience, and the newsbite itself. It explores how agenda setting and media framing interact with readers’ cognitive environment and intertextuality through multimodal framing devices, such as composition and point of view, to capture attention and foster acceptance.