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Original Research Article Media and news agencies in general shapes public opinion. This study argued that there would be a shift to less favorable opinion about migration in the newspaper in 2015 than in 2018. This is largely due to the increasing rate of terrorist attacks that occurred within the periods under study. To prove the argument for this study, content analysis was used to analyse newspapers in five different European countriesGermany, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden and France. It was evident in the study that, different attitudes by the countries were developed in dealing with the issues of migrations. Nonetheless, there was a general shift in the focus of coverage across Europe showing similarities across the cases studied.
Media Influence On Public Opinion Attitudes Toward The Migration Crisis
International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, 2016
Many studies, or facts from the practical experience of many journalist, politicians and professors, show that the media impact on public opinion is enormous and essential. Many issues of everyday life, human crisis or mainstream policies, once covered and analyzed from the lenses of the media, become the main concerns of the citizens and have a meaningful impact on the attitudes of the public opinion. The migration crisis that is challenging the European countries nowadays is a big concern not only for the host countries citizens, but a life challenge for the immigrants themselves. This study will examine of the connection between media reports on immigration and public attitudes and actions, and how migration issues presented in the mainstream media impact the public and political discourse on international migration.
The European "migration crisis " and the media A cross-European press content analysis
This report presents the main findings of our cross-European analysis of the press across eight European countries, as well as in the two main European Arabic language newspapers. This was a systematic content analysis which focussed on three peak moments in "the crisis": in the 2015 summer, early autumn and late autumn. Developing a content analysis of influential press in a six-month period, this report offers a cross-national comparative perspective on the dynamics of news reporting. The study consequently provides a comprehensive view of variations in the representation of migrants and refugees across national press cultures and across time, offering reflections on the implications these have on European media as spaces of representation for distant others. (see more on this project at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/Migration-and-the-media.aspx)
In 2014, more than 200,000 refugees and migrants fled for safety across the Mediterranean Sea. Crammed into overcrowded, unsafe boats, thousands drowned, prompting the Pope to warn that the sea was becoming a mass graveyard. The early months of 2015 saw no respite. In April alone more than 1,300 people drowned. This led to a large public outcry to increase rescue operations. Throughout this period, UNHCR and other humanitarian organisations, engaged in a series of largescale media advocacy exercises, aiming at convincing European countries to do more to help. It was crucial work, setting the tone for the dramatic rise in attention to the refugee crisis that followed in the second half of 2015. But the media was far from united in its response. While some outlets joined the call for more assistance, others were unsympathetic, arguing against increasing rescue operations. To learn why, UNHCR commissioned a report by the Cardiff School of Journalism to explore what was driving media coverage in five different European countries: Spain, Italy, Germany, the UK and Sweden. Researchers combed through thousands of articles written in 2014 and early 2015, revealing a number of important findings for future media advocacy campaigns. Most importantly, they found major differences between countries, in terms of the sources journalists used (domestic politicians, foreign politicians, citizens, or NGOs), the language they employed, the reasons they gave for the rise in refugee flows, and the solutions they suggested. Germany and Sweden, for example, overwhelmingly used the terms 'refugee' or 'asylum seeker', while Italy and the UK press preferred the word 'migrant'. In Spain, the dominant term was 'immigrant'. These terms had an important impact on the tenor of each country's debate. Media also differed widely in terms of the predominant themes to their coverage. For instance, humanitarian themes were more common in Italian coverage than in British, German or Spanish press. Threat themes (such as to the welfare system, or cultural threats) were the most prevalent in Italy, Spain and Britain. Overall, the Swedish press was the most positive towards refugees and migrants, while coverage in the United Kingdom was the most negative, and the most polarised. Amongst those countries surveyed, Britain's right-wing media was uniquely aggressively in its campaigns against refugees and migrants. This report provides important insights into each country's press culture during a crucial period of agenda-setting for today's refugee and migrant crisis. It also offers invaluable insights into historical trends. What emerges is a clear message that for media work on refugees, one size does not fit all. Effective media advocacy in different European nations requires targeted, tailored campaigns, which takes into account their unique cultures and political context.
Journalism, 2023
This study compares the editorial coverage of the 2015 migration crisis in major centreleft and centre-right newspapers in three European countries affected (the UK, Germany and Greece). We test the empirical validity of the 'national media-system' hypothesis, and in particular the hypothesised characteristics of the different media systems these countries represent through a systematic content analysis of all editorials referring to the issue of migration/asylum for the period 2015-2016. For the purposes of data collection, we develop an original coding scheme that combines concepts and categories from the extant literature on media systems, as well as the literature on migration-related news frames. Our findings largely confirm the relevance of media-system characteristics in the coverage of the crisis, although UK editorials are markedly more polarised than expected. We also find that there was no consensus-based editorial coverage in the initial phase of the crisis.
Journalism, 2021
Immigration is a dramatic challenge for Europe: the press has a large influence in determining the opinion climate at this regard. This article investigates how a selection of newspapers in Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy covers the immigration issue from 1 January 2013 to 30 April 2014, before and after the Lampedusa shipwreck on 3 October 2013. Departing from the hypothesis that the media ownership may have a large influence on the content of the news, we investigate 12 different media companies in conjunction with other variables that may affect the coverage of the topic as well. A quantitative content analysis has been first used to derive information from a collection of 2602 articles retrieved through a set of specific keywords from different online database. Afterward, a Multiple Correspondence Analysis has been performed to explore and synthetize the collected information into a small number of ‘factors’.
The first results of the content analysis of the media in the course of migration crisis in Hungary
Ceaseval Working paper, 2019
After a brief and critical overview of the methodological basis of the research on the role of media in the politicization process of the migration crisis, we came to the conclusion that our knowledge is often based on analyses using rather unreliable methodology. As an illustration of a better solution we created a large dataset from online articles published in Hungary between January 2015 and April 2018, and carried out an analysis of prevalence and some aspects of the content of the politicization process. With this exercise we intended to set an example for EU authorities why to create a proper dataset to follow the mediatized form of the policicization processesan would be useful. At the end of the case study, to demonstrate the essence of our approach for more methodology-sensitive Readers we briefly defined the basic terms we used, and in the Appendices we summarized the main characteristics of the research design and the dataset we constructed.
Cross-country comparison of media selection and attitudes towards narratives on migration
2021
In this report, we provide a cross-country comparison of news media consumption patterns and anti-immigrant, refugee, and Muslim sentiments in four European countries: Austria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy (N = 6,065). Data were collected among adults aged 25 to 65 through an online survey fielded during three weeks in May and June 2021. Our findings show that there are notable differences, but also various similarities, in news media consumption patterns: newspaper and digital news consumption is clearly lower than television or radio consumption, in all countries. Furthermore, German, Austrian, and Italian respondents hold relatively similar television and radio news consumption patterns (high public service media exposure, lower commercial), but this is quite different among Hungarians. They consume more news on commercial outlets. As for newspaper and digital news, Germans and Italians mostly consume quality (or broadsheet) newspapers or digital news, while Austrians and Hungaria...
2019
This report offers a broad overview of migration discourses in European media for researchers in comparative media and migration studies, journalists, and migration policymakers. The authors focus on the concepts of salience, sentiment and framing to describe dynamics in media discourses in seven European countries: Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Romania. The report makes use of a semi-automated approach to computational media analysis, and examines a wide range of media outlets over the period of 2003-2017. The analysis reveals a range of key patterns in migration coverage, including that migration issues tend to be more salient in the media of countries that receive large number of immigrants, compared to countries from which people emigrate; that coverage of intra-European migration tends to be more positive than coverage of migration in general; and that security concerns tend to dominate coverage of migration into the EU, whereas coverage of migration within the bloc tends to focus on economic issues.
European Media and Migration-Related News: Comparing Discourse with Reality
2019
This study seeks to identify divergences between discourses of migration in European media (immigration and emigration) and objective reality. The research seeks to expand upon existing knowledge of the production processes behind news about migration (general migration and intra-EU migration) by analysing the degree to which both the salience and the framing of news about migration are aligned with real-world developments and key events. The researchers use semi-automated approaches to computational media analysis for six European countries: Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland and Romania.