100 días de pandemia: narrativas de los think tanks en el inicio de la Covid-19

Vanessa Roger-Monzó; Fernando Castelló-Sirvent

doi:10.31637/epsir-2024-735

Authors

Vanessa Roger-Monzó University of Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7498-0406
Fernando Castelló-Sirvent Polytechnic University of Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2088-0039

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2024-735

Keywords:

think tank, Covid-19, crisis, media, press, speech, textual analysis, T-LAB

Abstract

Introduction: This research examines the discourse developed by the Spanish media about think tanks during the initial period of the Covid-19 crisis. Methodology: A textual analysis is carried out of the news appearing in national and Spanish-language media that refer to think tanks. The search for publications related to these organizations was carried out using the Factiva® tool. The analyzed period begins on January 31, 2020, with the declaration of the international health alert launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and ends 100 days later, coinciding with the beginning of the de-escalation phase. 136 publications have been retrieved and examined using T-LAB Plus 2021, a qualitative-quantitative data analysis software. Results: The evidence found reveals that the content published by the media about think tanks constitutes information on the results of the analyzes they prepare and proposals derived from them. Conclusions: Globally, they address issues of social concern limited to the scope of the consequences and solutions of the economic crisis derived from Covid-19.

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Author Biographies

Vanessa Roger-Monzó, University of Valencia

PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2010). Degree in Visual and Auditory Image (2000); in Journalism (2005); in Advertising and Public Relations (2015). Her professional experience has been developed in television and as an independent marketing and communication consultant for more than 20 years. Since 2008 she has been teaching at several universities. She is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Universitat de València, where she is part of the Scienceflows group and coordinates the IAcom project (Artificial Intelligence in Communication). Her current research interests include science communication and social discourse analysis in the media. In 2020 he was recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds a six-year research fellowship.

Fernando Castelló-Sirvent, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Economist, Professor and Researcher in the Department of Business Organisation at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain. He holds a PhD in Business Management from the Universitat de València. His research fields include artificial intelligence and its applications, socio-technical transitions for sustainability, strategy and crisis management, think tanks and public policy, entrepreneurship and teaching innovation. His teaching experience has been in strategy, business information systems, international trade, international economics and Spanish economics. For more than two decades he has worked as a senior strategic advisor to family businesses and has led multiple research and knowledge transfer projects.

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