Steven Bermúdez is a professor and researcher at the University of Zulia (Maracaibo-Venezuela). Bachelor of Arts, with a degree in Literature and postgraduate studies in Theoretical Linguistics. PhD in Language and Literature Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain. 2006). He completed a postdoctoral degree in Human Sciences at the University of Zulia (2011). Has participated, as a speaker, in scientific events in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, etc. Has developed research and published more than forty articles in national and international magazines and collective books on Venezuelan literary criticism, literary theory, studies of media discourse and political communication. He is currently accredited as a researcher to the Council for Scientific and Technological Development of the University of Zulia and to the Program of Encouragement of Research and Innovation, top level (C), by the Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Innovation of Venezuela.   

Publications

2021.«La narrativa política sobre la migración venezolana. La disposición de un sentido mediático».

2020.«Los medios de comunicación, el periodismo y la representación de la violencia: reproducción y perpetuación»

2019.«El persistente entumeciendo: enmarcado noticioso sobre Venezuela» 

2016. «La argumentación emocional en el periodismo narrativo: persuadir afectivamente como relato del mundo»

2015.«Modelos de contextos e identidades discursivas colectivas: uso de la plataforma Zello durante las revueltas insurreccionales en Venezuela del año 2014»

Research project as CALAS fellow:

Title: Political narratives in transmedia journalism in the face of polarized political crises: lead or contribute?

Summary: The present research (of qualitative type) has the purpose of entering into transmedia journalism to discover the political narratives offered in terms of the configuration of the political crises derived from polarization. Let us remember that, in the case of South America, these have been presented from a polarized perspective that, in the face of its effects, enters into crisis due to the damages produced to the institutionality.

The research will be developed in three moments: descriptive, analytical and, finally, interpretive. The selected transmedia products (through an intentional non-probabilistic sampling) will be those that contain, semiodiscursivamente, a political narrative to reference the temporal segments corresponding to the plebiscite for the peace accords (Colombia 2016), the migration of Venezuelans during the first months of 2018 and the events following the presidential elections in Bolivia in 2019 that pushed for the resignation of President Evo Morales. All were events with a strong polarization between social forces that supported or rejected. In this way, we will be able to know to what extent this new journalistic modality counted and intervened in the establishment of a specific political narrative, either to lead the dispute or to distribute it. For the analysis, I will use the media platforms of representative and recognized journalistic companies of the continent, one for each event. Data storage and scanning will be done with the support of MAXQDA qualitative research software. I hope, once the study is done, to be able to present to what extent the political narrative present in the products generated from this new journalistic resource (transmedia) contributes to the tension or social distension that the events generated and, in short, to overcoming or maintaining the crisis they generate.