Educación contra el prejuiciocaso aplicado al Periodismo

  1. Mayoral-Sánchez, Javier
  2. Parratt Fernández, Sonia
  3. Mera Fernández, Montse
  4. De-Lorenzo-Barrientos, Diego
Journal:
OBETS: Revista de Ciencias Sociales

ISSN: 1989-1385

Year of publication: 2022

Volume: 17

Issue: 2

Pages: 253-266

Type: Article

DOI: 10.14198/OBETS2022.17.2.05 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The study of prejudices, understood as negative attitudes that arise from beliefs, is particularly interesting when connecting the fields of education and communication, since these are two decisive areas both to combat and to amplify prejudices. This research analyses prejudices in the framework of journalism education. The affinities and opinions of 500 journalism students at the Complutense University of Madrid have been studied during five academic years (between 2015 and 2020). A stratified sampling with uniform allocation has been carried out, without replacement, in which each stratum is one of the school years. To calculate the sample size, a confidence interval of 95% and a margin of error of 2.7% are set. From a seemingly banal conflict and not linked to classic ideological debates, the students answered a questionnaire developed to quantify the degree of connection between previous personal sympathies and journalistic judgments. The research has also devised a simple pedagogical intervention that would make it possible to neutralize as much as possible the effect of prejudices in journalistic work. This intervention was applied to only half of the students to be able to compare results. The students’ responses reveal that there is a close relationship between their previous sympathies and the journalistic judgments they make. The presence of prejudices is shown much more clearly in students who start from negative affective or emotional attitudes (rejection, antipathy or fear, for example). It is also in this group where the pedagogical intervention designed to combat prejudice is most effective.

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