Spanish Newspaper Front Pages on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 Onwards

From 1989 onwards, this dataset contains multimodal analyses of front pages from two Spanish newspapers, El País and ABC, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was created by Silvia Molina Plaza and focuses on layout structure and rhetorical argumentation. The dataset was last updated on October 14, 2025.

Use Cases

• Contrasting ideological portrayals of historical events based on the analysis of two newspapers with opposing views.
• Analyzing multimodal discourse based on the combination of text, layout, and images on newspaper front pages.
• Studying rhetorical strategies and argumentation based on the application of pragma-dialectics and strategic manoeuvring theory.
• Investigating genre application in media based on the treatment of a socially significant event over time.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, socially significant historical event: the fall of the Berlin Wall.
• Compares two ideologically opposed sources: El País (progressive/liberal) and ABC (conservative).
• Analyzes multiple dimensions: layout structure, rhetorical structure, and multimodal features.

Limitations

• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset appears to be an analysis corpus, not the raw newspaper pages; data accessibility is unclear.

Provenance

Source

Molina Plaza, Silvia via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Likely involves manual collection and analysis of newspaper front pages.

Time Range

1989 onwards.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:39:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain (Spanish newspapers).