Media and elections 2012: Old and new challenges for political communication in Mexico

This paper presents a reflection on the role of media, referring to 2012 Mexico's federal elections. First, we go through the confrontation held between elections administrators and the main broadcast media corporations around the country. That dispute arose from the enacted Federal Institution...

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Autor: Leticia Castillo Quiñonez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:uacj.mx:oai:oai:erevistas.uacj.mx:article-235
Acceso en línea:http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/noesis/article/view/235
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cyber-activism
political communication
mediocracy
elections 2012
Ciberactivismo
comunicación política
mediocracia
elecciones 2012
CIENCIAS SOCIALES
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/5
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Sumario:This paper presents a reflection on the role of media, referring to 2012 Mexico's federal elections. First, we go through the confrontation held between elections administrators and the main broadcast media corporations around the country. That dispute arose from the enacted Federal Institutions and Elections Proceedings (COFIPE by its Spanish acronym), back in 2007. Secondly, we tackle a crucial issue that we consider the focus on several analyses about the 2012 elections; how cyber activism –mainly the #yosoy132 movement– burst into the politics arena, and the way they reached not only the media but the institutions around the nation. From those two frameworks, the final part is a look at the 2012 local electoral process –Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez–, where repeated historical trend abstention after a process subordinated to the federal match, with traditional media coverage and reduced advertising scarce, little enthusiasm, even in the echo of the #Yosoy132 movement.