The Health Crisis on Instagram: How the Media Are Building Their Agenda on the Visual Social Network During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Valentina Laferrara; Santiago Javier Justel Vázquez

The Health Crisis on Instagram: How the Media Are Building Their Agenda on the Visual Social Network During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Valentina Laferrara, Santiago Javier Justel Vázquez

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Abstract

Over the last decade social networks have become important channels for the media to publish information and communicate with their younger audiences, with Instagram recently becoming the most popular platform for this purpose. This article is an investigation into news production on this social net-work in the context of the international crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, by means of a content analysis of 552 posts published by the two most widely read Spanish newspapers. The results suggest that despite there being a large quantity of soft content and human interest stories, as found in previous research, Instagram is also used asa platform to distribute information of public interest about the management of the crisis (such as political decisions and health content).

Translated title of the contribution	The Health Crisis on Instagram: How the Media Are Building Their Agenda on the Visual Social Network During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	123-134
Number of pages	11
Journal	Trípodos
Volume	1
Issue number	47
Publication status	Published - 26 May 2020

Keywords

social network
Instagram
journalism
Covid-19
agenda setting

UN SDGs

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The Health Crisis on Instagram: How the Media Are Building Their Agenda on the Visual Social Network During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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