Immigration and Prejudice. Youth Perspectives through the Media Diet (original) (raw)

En Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji & Amparo Huertas (eds.) Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales. Barcelona: Bellaterra. Institut de la Comunicació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

This chapter intends to analyse new perception of migration process in Spanish society, through the lens of young people, including second generation migrants among them. This aim has been undertaken through the analysis of the media diet and uses if ICT that a sample of Spanish youth do in their everyday lives. In the last two decades, Spanish society has experienced a huge transformation due to immigration. This new social landscape requires new approaches to ascertain how the youth see this transformation under the influence of the information and ideas about immigration that both, traditional and new media convey. The text begins with a theoretical analysis of the main perspectives on prejudice and xenophobia towards otherness, together with an assessment of immigration treatment by Spanish traditional media. This introduction is completed with the presentation of the results offered by an exploratory survey applied to a sample of university students, as well as an initial exploration of virtual communities on immigration in Facebook. Finally, results show an increase of negative perception of migration, and thus, allowed us to confirm the main hypothesis on latent or subtle prejudice.

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