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Representation of Youth in the Public Debate in Greece, Italy, and Spain: Does the Political Leaning of Newspapers Have Any Effect?
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Abstract Recent scientific studies have reached the near-unanimous conclusion that the media produce a stereotypical representation of young people. However, research in this area has not often scrutinized whether there are any significant differences in the coverage of the subject matter. Notably, this arti... view more
Recent scientific studies have reached the near-unanimous conclusion that the media produce a stereotypical representation of young people. However, research in this area has not often scrutinized whether there are any significant differences in the coverage of the subject matter. Notably, this article examines whether the political leaning of newspapers has any impact on the levels of plurality in the news coverage of youth. On the basis of political claim analyses of six newspapers from three countries (Greece, Italy, and Spain), we find that the coverage of youth in the public debate is very similar if we compare center-right to center-left newspapers. This suggests that the social construction of the concept of youth dominates in the adult world, regardless of any political differences. Nonetheless, differences emerge when young people are given the opportunity to speak for themselves; center-left newspapers are more likely to recognize the agency of, and give a voice to, young people.... view less
Keywords
Italy; adolescent; newspaper; young adult; discourse; stereotype; polarization; representation; Spain; reporting; Greece
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Free Keywords
public debate; claim analysis; media system
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 620-637
Journal
American Behavioral Scientist, 64 (2019) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219885437
ISSN
0002-7642
Status
Preprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0