Webcams as Emerging Cinematic Medium, Paula Albuquerque Put differently, it would be reasonable to conclude that El Candidato played a major civic role in Mexico’s 2000 election by inserting itself as an actor in the public debate and blurring the lines of public and private media? The story and narratives it presented contributed to challenging the political party ruling the country in reality, and it reinforced suspicions about media manipulation leading to distortion of historical and/or recent political facts. El Candidato was a very real fiction – a subtle mixture of documentary and fiction that blurred the line between reality and manipulation.
It appears that this telenovela had a political agenda yet it is hard to define where the public and private interests were because often El Candidato represented both, producing cognitive implications on its viewer-voters. El Candidato became a mediator and “part” of the real presidential campaign as a narrator of reality. This telenovela also very significantly reflected the blurring of public and private media that many believe served as the tipping point in the election. This paper will focus on El Candidato, a Mexican telenovela that aired in parallel with a real presidential election of 2000 and blurred the lines of fiction and reality. The Cognitive Effects of Converging Private and Public Media in the Telenovela El Candidato during the 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, Ivan Abarca
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