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The covid-19 pandemic according to the international media: Ecuador’s case through framing theory on twitter

Abstract:

The research exposes through Framing Theory the different approaches of the national and international press regarding the terrible events that occurred in Ecuador during the so called “Emergency of Guayaquil” between the end of March and the beginning of April 2020, being the hardest moments suffered under the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking as a basis the proposal of generic frames (conflict, consequences, human interest, morality and responsibility) in the Semetko and Valkenburg scale applied to Twitter, the existence of two very different news constructs between the national and international press is evidenced. While in the national press the frame of consequence predominates through a context of high demand for information from audiences to monitor the development of events, the international press emphasized the frame of human interest in the face of need for morbid scenes and sensationalism.