Género y Construcciones de Poder en el Reportaje Visual Político

The analysis of visual presscoverage is still in the early stages of development, although politicalcommunication today is no longer logo-centered but mainly icon-centered. In ourpaper we first outline a method to analyze the meaning of journalistic picturesin a standardized way combining methodological insights from quantitativecontent analysis with findings from social psychology and (de-) constructivefeminist theory. In a second step we present the results of an analysis offront pages of German news magazines showing how “Cross-Sex-Typing” is appliedto mark political power or powerlessness.El análisis de la cobertura de la prensa visual todavía se encuentra en las primeras etapas de su desarrollo, a pesar que hoy la comunicación política ya no está centrada en el logo, sino que principalmente se centra en el icono. En nuestro artículo, primero perfilamos un método de analizar el significado de fotografías periodísticas de una forma estandarizada, combinando entendimientos metodológicos del análisis del contenido cuantitativo, con hallazgos de la psicología social y la teoría feminista (de-) constructiva. En una segunda etapa, presentamos los resultados de un análisis de las portadas de revistas de noticias alemanas, que muestran como el " Cross-Sex-Typing" es aplicado para marcar la impotencia o el poder político

Micromotives of Vote Switchers and Macrotransitions: The Case of the Immigration Issue in a Regional Earthquake Election in Germany 2018

Which issue-related motives underlie voters' decision to switch parties at the polls? Do switchers stick to the newly chosen party, or do they oscillate in a short-term way at intermediate elections? Relying on the behavioral theory of elections, we assumed aspiration-based voting of boundedly rational voters. We elicited issue-related switch and stay motives in an open-ended survey question format to identify the individual dominant aspirational frame. We traced the respondents' voting trajectories over three consecutive elections, including two state (2013 and 2018) elections in Bavaria (Germany) and one German federal election (2017). We focused on one of the most polarizing and salient issues in these elections, namely immigration. The case of reference is the 2018 Bavarian state election. Here, the incumbent majoritarian center-right party Christian Social Union tried to deter the entry of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany by adapting to it on the immigration issue in tone and position. The selected case allows assessment of the impact of issue-based adaptive behavior of the incumbent party at the level of the voters' switch or stay choices. We estimated the direction and number of voter flows for two interelection sequences of different lengths between different types of polls (federal and state). Our transition estimates are based on the hybrid multinomial Dirichlet model, a new technique integrating individual-level survey data and official aggregate data. Our estimates uncover substantial behavioral differences in the immigration issue public

Gender and Power Constructions in Visual Political Reporting

El análisis de la cobertura de la prensa visual todavía se encuentra  en las primeras etapas de su desarrollo, a pesar que hoy la comunicación política ya no está centrada en el logo, sino que  principalmente se centra en el icono. En nuestro artículo, primero perfilamos un método de analizar el significado de fotografías periodísticas de una forma estandarizada, combinando entendimientos metodológicos del análisis del contenido cuantitativo, con hallazgos de la psicología social y la teoría feminista (de-) constructiva. En una segunda etapa, presentamos los resultados de un análisis de las portadas de revistas de noticias alemanas, que muestran como el " Cross-Sex-Typing" es aplicado para marcar la impotencia o el poder político.The analysis of visual presscoverage is still in the early stages of development, although politicalcommunication today is no longer logo-centered but mainly icon-centered. In ourpaper we first outline a method to analyze the meaning of journalistic picturesin a standardized way combining methodological insights from quantitativecontent analysis with findings from social psychology and (de-) constructivefeminist theory. In a second step we present the results of an analysis offront pages of German news magazines showing how “Cross-Sex-Typing” is appliedto mark political power or powerlessness