H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

IMMIGRANTS · The Effects of Media News about Immigrants on Majority’s Attitudes and Behaviors towards Immigrants

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-01-01 → 2019-07-23
Финансиране от ЕС: 187 420 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Влиянието на медийните новини върху отношението към имигрантите се анализира чрез езика, тона на статиите и използваните снимки. Разбирането на тези механизми помага за създаването на по-включващи общества и намаляването на нетолерантността.

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Резултати накратко

The Effects of Media News about Immigrants on Majority’s Attitudes and Behaviors towards Immigrants

The proportion of immigrants in Western Europe is growing faster than ever before (United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 2016). Racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance complicate integration of immigrants into host societies and threaten security in the increasingly diverse societies. In order to create inclusive and harmonious societies, a goal defined within the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion, residents of European countries must come to terms with people from different ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. One of the main sources of information about immigrants that can influence residents’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration is mass media. Despite its omnipresence and outreach, the effects of different aspects of mass media in shaping attitudes are still underresearched. In this context, the aim of the IMMIGRANTS project was to supply the missing evidence on how different aspects of mass media news about immigrants shape residents’ attitudes and behaviors toward immigrants. The first objective of the project was to determine the effect of different linguistic forms used for labelling immigrants (i.e., nouns vs. adjectives) and valence of media articles about immigrants (i.e., positive, negative and mixed) on attitudes and behaviors toward immigrants. The second goal was to investigate the effect of images of immigrants that accompany articles about migration on attitudes and behaviors. Both goals featured extensive tests of mechanisms underlying the effects (e.g., emotions, prejudice) and of conditions that alter the effects (e.g., past exposure to mass media, intergroup contact with immigrants, political orientation). The original two objectives have been extended to other aspects of mass media, testing the effects of different framing of migration-related issues (i.e., episodic, migrant-centred, framing vs. thematic, generic, framing) and the effect of terms for immigrants’ status (i.e., migrant, asylum seeker, vs. refugee) in different cultural contexts.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The interdisciplinary IMMIGRANTS project aims at a better understanding of how media influence majority’s attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants – a socially pressing issue connected to rapid expansion of immigration in Europe. In the project, I will focus on different aspects of media news – their valence, labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity and pictures of immigrants accompanying media articles about immigrants. The first goal of my research is to investigate how different labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity (nouns vs. adjectives) combined with different valence of media articles about immigrants (positive vs. negative vs. ambivalent) influence participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. My second goal is to compare the effects of articles accompanied by different images of immigrants and articles without such images on participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. Both goals feature a number of tasks related to the effects of media articles on attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants: I will test underlying mechanisms (e.g., biometrically tracked positive and negative emotions) and boundary conditions (e.g., social status and category salience of an immigrant group, participants’ intergroup contact with immigrants) of these effects. In three studies of the IMMIGRANTS project, I bring together different traditions on media and immigrant research and address several gaps in social scientific literature (e.g., too narrow focus on negative media news in political and media research, too narrow focus on positive intergroup contact and self-reported emotions in psychology). The outcome of IMMIGRANTS can be used to inform guidelines for professional training of journalists, policy makers, and social workers to become more sensitive to the impact of language describing immigrants.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAET BERN · BernКоординаторШвейцария