Media framing of immigrants in Central Europe in the period surrounding the refugee crisis : Security, negativity, and political sources

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Media framing of immigrants in Central Europe in the period surrounding the refugee crisis: Security, negativity, and political sources
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Kovář, Jan
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Communications, 48, 2023, 1, S. 5-27
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Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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E-Article
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article investigates how all the main quality and tabloid newspapers and the television newscasts of the main broadcasters in Czechia and Slovakia framed immigrants, what the tone of the employed frames was, and who the main framing actors were before and during the EU refugee crisis (2013–2016). Using quantitative content analysis (N = 7,910), we show that security and cultural frames are most commonly employed while the victimization frame is much less common. Whereas tabloids use the security and cultural frames more often, the victimization, economic and administrative frames are more often invoked in quality media. We also show that the framing of immigrants is predominantly negative, and that the security and cultural are the most negatively valenced frames. Finally, we document a dominance of political actors and the practical invisibility of immigrants and refugees in the media coverage.</jats:p>
Umfang
5-27
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
1613-4087
0341-2059
DOI
10.1515/commun-2020-0087