Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem
This article analyzes how the media constructs social reality through language. Social reality is revised as a discursive construct based on the anthropic principle of information and on Watzlawick's axiom that, “it is impossible not to communicate”. The main objective is to analyze how the con...
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| author | Sabina Civila de Dios Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez Ignacio Aguaded |
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| description | This article analyzes how the media constructs social reality through language. Social reality is revised as a discursive construct based on the anthropic principle of information and on Watzlawick's axiom that, “it is impossible not to communicate”. The main objective is to analyze how the concept of “public opinion” has evolved with the development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). To this end, a critical review of scientific literature has been carried out, mapping the WoS and Scopus databases, and determining, through a literature review, how the new definitions of public opinion are formed. This increases the understanding of the media ecosystem and the interactions of individuals at the digital communication level. The main conclusion of this study highlights how public opinion is no longer created unidirectionally and monopolistically through conventional media, but with the interaction and participation of the “prosumer audience” within social networks. However, this does not mean the role of the media in social control has been completely lost through strategies such as framing and priming. Indeed, new informative vices, such as fake news, have emerged from this interactive construction of realities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b37f02cc78f4f048771ea3add70f03d2025-02-02T12:32:22ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832020-05-01246713915710.17141/iconos.67.2020.3942Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystemSabina Civila de Dios0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6059-9893Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3924-1517Ignacio Aguaded2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0229-1118Universidad de Huelva EspañaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos EspañaUniversidad de Huelva EspañaThis article analyzes how the media constructs social reality through language. Social reality is revised as a discursive construct based on the anthropic principle of information and on Watzlawick's axiom that, “it is impossible not to communicate”. The main objective is to analyze how the concept of “public opinion” has evolved with the development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). To this end, a critical review of scientific literature has been carried out, mapping the WoS and Scopus databases, and determining, through a literature review, how the new definitions of public opinion are formed. This increases the understanding of the media ecosystem and the interactions of individuals at the digital communication level. The main conclusion of this study highlights how public opinion is no longer created unidirectionally and monopolistically through conventional media, but with the interaction and participation of the “prosumer audience” within social networks. However, this does not mean the role of the media in social control has been completely lost through strategies such as framing and priming. Indeed, new informative vices, such as fake news, have emerged from this interactive construction of realities.https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3942lenguajemedios de comunicaciónopinión públicarealidad socialredes socialestic |
| spellingShingle | Sabina Civila de Dios Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez Ignacio Aguaded Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem Íconos lenguaje medios de comunicación opinión pública realidad social redes sociales tic |
| title | Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| title_full | Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| title_fullStr | Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| title_short | Language as a creator of realities and public opinion: Critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| title_sort | language as a creator of realities and public opinion critical analysis in the context of the current media ecosystem |
| topic | lenguaje medios de comunicación opinión pública realidad social redes sociales tic |
| url | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3942 |
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