Abstract

LONDONO, ADRIANA MARCELA  and  GUTIERREZ, EDUARDO. MOE's (Misión de Observación Electoral) Monitoring of the Media During the Election Campaign of 2007: a Case for a Better Understanding of the Changes that have Taken Place in the Relationship between the Media and Democracy in Colombia.. Signo pensam. [online]. 2008, vol.27, n.53, pp.282-294. ISSN 0120-4823.

This article propounds a critical review of the monitoring of the media carried out by MOE (Misión de Observación Electoral) and a group of university professors and student members of AFACOM from 8 different regions during the presidential elections of October, 2007. The paper presents the contextualization of the process, the conceptual components, the methodology used, and the results of both the direct analyses during the campaign and then, later, a more objective analysis of the final results.

Keywords : Media monitoring; election processes; citizenship; political communication..

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