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This article analyses how the formation of the
XXIst Portuguese Constitutional Government, supported by
the Parliamentarian Left (Socialist Party, Communist Party
and the far-left organization Left Block that holds together
fringes from ecologists movements, Trotskyists groups, and
ex-Maoists organizations) was framed by “Observador”,
a right-wing online newspaper, ideologically opposed,
from the editorial point of view, to the new Government.
Simultaneously, we aim to understand if this framing process was followed by the audience. The comments posted by
the newsreaders on the website but also on Facebook were
analyzed during the formation of the new political solution.
The goal was to determine whether there was a relationship
between the frames used by the medium, and the opinion
expressed by its readers. The results show a higher presence
of the game-strategy frame in the media coverage of XXIst
Constitutional Government formation process, but a closer look reveals that the most common employed narrative
frames were on political impacts and conflict stories, resulting from an accentuated political turn to the left. Our analysis shows that the “Observador”’s audience
triggered different interpretative frameworks always sharing an opposition to the
formation of the left Government.
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Framing online deliberation Reader's comments XXI Constituotional Government Observador Geringonça
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Labcom