Keywords
election processes
citizenship
political communication.
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Abstract
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.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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