Publication: Medio ambiente, manipulación política y control mediático del riesgo. Análisis del caso del hundimiento del petrolero Prestige
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2006
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Universidad de Sevilla: Grupo de Investigación en Estructura, Historia y Contenidos de la Comunicación
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El hundimiento del petrolero Prestige en las costas gallegas en 2002 ha sido uno de los peores episodios de contaminación medioambiental en España, junto con Doñana. Pero el caso Prestige también es importante desde el punto de vista mediático y científico porque ha sido la primera vez en la historia de la ciencia española en la que los científicos se unieron para luchar contra el control político del conocimiento y solicitaron auxilio a través de la revista Science.Es un caso muy interesante de la unión de intereses políticos, riesgo medioambiental y control del conocimiento científico a través de los medios de comunicación. Resulta muy complejo comparar todo esto y, por ello, en este artículo se ha tratado de realizar un análisis de contenido y dar una versión de los hechos desde el punto de vista del conflicto ciencia-medios de comunicación-control político. En primer lugar, se hará una cronología de los hechos, porque puede que el caso ya quede lejano. Después, se analizará la estrategia mediática y los efectos tanto políticos como científicos que tuvo.
The oil tanker Prestige sank off the northwest coast of Spain with almost 80,000 tons oil in 2002. This has been not only of the worst episodes of environmental contamination in Spain (with Doñana) but also is important because has been the first time that in the Spanish history of science scientists joined to fight against the political control of the knowledge. Even they requested their protest in journal Science. So Prestige it is a very interesting case in which political interests, environmental risk and scientific knowledge are in competition. Results will very complicated to compare. Because of that, in this article we try to carry out a content analysis and give an explanation of the facts since the point of view of political control versus mass media and science conflicts. First of all we show a chronology, because maybe not many people remember the case. Secondly we describe the media strategy and after that will be analyzed it in order to find its political and scientific effects.
The oil tanker Prestige sank off the northwest coast of Spain with almost 80,000 tons oil in 2002. This has been not only of the worst episodes of environmental contamination in Spain (with Doñana) but also is important because has been the first time that in the Spanish history of science scientists joined to fight against the political control of the knowledge. Even they requested their protest in journal Science. So Prestige it is a very interesting case in which political interests, environmental risk and scientific knowledge are in competition. Results will very complicated to compare. Because of that, in this article we try to carry out a content analysis and give an explanation of the facts since the point of view of political control versus mass media and science conflicts. First of all we show a chronology, because maybe not many people remember the case. Secondly we describe the media strategy and after that will be analyzed it in order to find its political and scientific effects.
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Medio ambiente, Prestige, Riesgo, Periodismo científico, Environment, Risk, Scientific journalism
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Ámbitos: Revista Internacional de la Comunicacion, N.15 ( 2006) pp. 171-190