Castrism and antiscastrism in the web: ideological analysis of the comments to the death of Laura Pollán in the digital newspaper Publico.es
Abstrakt
The goal of the presented paper is to analyze the pro-Castro and anti-Castro ideologies in Spain through the readers' comments in the discussion forum of a digital newspa-per. Concretely, the paper analyzes the forum of an article about the death of the Cu-ban dissident Laura Pollán, published in Público.es.
The paper follows the paradigm of ideological analysis proposed by Teun A. van Dijk and his neutral interpretation of ideology. The ideological analysis takes place in two phases.
In the first one, we com-pare the vocabulary and propositions of the pro-Castro and anti-Castro ideologies and we create an ideological repertoire for each position. In the second one, we deduce the contents (values and beliefs) of both ideologies.
The results prove that these ideologies are rooted in a different view of the liberal democratic system: discontent (pro-Castro) and satisfaction (anti-Castro). The discontent is the majoritarian view of the readers of Publico.es.
At the same time, the paper shows that the on-line articles are a complex ideological product also influenced by its users.