Rare diseases in the media

Report April-June 2014, Observatory for Rare Diseases FEDER (OBSER)

  • Josep Solves Almela Universidad Cardenal Herrera
  • Antonio Miguel Bañón Hernández Universidad de Almería
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2015.1.1.5sol
Keywords: rare diseases, media, Spain, 2014

Abstract

This report presents the analysis of how Spanish mass media dealt with the so-called rare deseases during the months of April, May and June of 2014. The report has the same general objective of the first one for the previous three months: understand how rare diseases are presented in the Spanish media and, correspondingly, how that media representation evolves. In this report, the data of the first trimester is compared to the second one.

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Author Biographies

Josep Solves Almela, Universidad Cardenal Herrera

Josep Solves Almela  holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1999) and Bachelor of Information Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1991). He is lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication at the University CEU Cardenal Herrera, where he teaches in the area of Communication Theory and Sociology. In 2005 he established the Research Group on Disability and Communication (GIDYC) at CEU Cardenal Herrera University where he has led research projects on the Spanish media coverage of the Paralympic Games and the study on the media coverage of disability in Valencia. He coordinated the book Tratamiento de los Juegos Paralímpicos de 2008 en los medios españoles (Madrid: CERMI, 2012).

Antonio Miguel Bañón Hernández, Universidad de Almería

Miguel Antonio Hernández Bañón holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Murcia and currently teaches at the University of Almería. Directs the research group ECCO (Critical Studies in Communication). It is scientific coordinator of the Center for Research in Communication and Society (CySOC). And technical director of the Observatory on Rare Diseases (OBSER). He has authored more than one hundred works on two preferred areas of research: the analysis of oral discourse and critical discourse analysis.

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Published
01-06-2015
How to Cite
Solves Almela, J., & Bañón Hernández, A. (2015). Rare diseases in the media. Texts in Process, 1(1), 90-236. https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2015.1.1.5sol
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Vol 1 No 1 (2015)
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