Transmedia storytelling and political proximity in the electoral campaign of Jorge Yunda Machado, Mayor of Quito 2019

Abstract:

The study explores how transmedia storytelling was used to generate strategies of proximity in the municipal campaign of Jorge Yunda Machado to the Mayor of Quito 2019 elections, and how these conditioned the image of the candidate, as a «close and human» politician allowing an «anti-charismatic» identification toward the community of voters. For this a qualitative investigation was used, with content analysis (denotative and connotative) as a methodology for processing the information obtained from the media outlets and expert interviews. For the design of the model of analysis, the study considered the proposals of Canel (1999; 2008) on the organization and planning of electoral communication, and the contribution of Annunziata (2011), referred to political closeness. After the analysis, the study concludes that the proximity (physical and symbolic) of the candidate made the voters perceive him as an ordinary person, concerned about the problems affecting the majority of the citizens of Quito.

Año de publicación:

2021

Keywords:

• electoral campaign
• PROPAGANDA
• COMMUNICATION
• Transmedia storytelling
• Proximity
• Strategy

Fuente:

scopus