Digital Journalism and Education: How Public Authorities Lower the Voice of Citizens
Digital Journalism and Education: How Public Authorities Lower the Voice of Citizens

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we examine the educational information produced during 2014 by media organization Agencia de Noticias San Luis (ANSL), a news agency with a digital platform created in 2012 and managed by the state. This work may be instrumental for studying the macro-themed messages in what we call “educational frames”, in a province where the dominance of state media is relevant. The methodologies used are frequency analysis and the examination of texts and their meaning. In the province of San Luis from Argentina, since the advent of democracy in 1983, the ruling Justicialist (Peronist) Party had the tendency to meddle with public service media, especially during election periods, thus creating partisan content. The relevant educational topics and the main diffi culties faced by education in San Luis, and key actors of the educational process were absent from ANSL agenda. The narrative of ANSL about the educational issues was dominated by issues such as computer use, Wi-Fi access, and government initiatives for all students.

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