Social problems that emerged in the treatment of information on the coronavirus pandemic in the cybermedia of El Espectador and El Tiempo

The objective of this study was to analyze the social issues that arose in the news coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in the online media outlets El Espectador and El Tiempo. The research is based on discourse analysis from a sociolinguistic perspective, with a descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative approach. Data collection involved cybergraphic extraction using search operators, followed by web scraping. The data were subsequently cleaned and analyzed using Atlas Ti and Sketch Engine software. Based on textual statistics, the results were interpreted according to the proposed methodological framework. The analysis of pandemic discourse in these media outlets made it possible to identify how the discursive strategies employed in crisis contexts influence social formation, the configuration of power structures, and the dynamics of response to emergency situations, thus highlighting the impact of the psycho-biopolitical agenda on society.