H2020Индивидуална стипендия2019–2021

MEDPOL · The fourth estate? media, frames and political behaviour towards the EU in comparative perspective

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

Период: 2019-10-01 → 2021-11-06
Финансиране от ЕС: 196 708 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Медийното отразяване на ЕС във Франция, Италия, Испания и Португалия анализира как новините и техният тон влияят върху политическите нагласи на хората. Това помага да се разбере как акцентът върху конфликтите и негативите в медиите може да засили недоверието в институциите.

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The fourth estate? media, frames and political behaviour towards the EU in comparative perspective

MEDPOL’s aim was twofold: a) to investigate how media coverage of the EU has evolved since the 1990s, and b) to assess the impact of news content and frames on political attitudes and behaviour towards the EU in Italy, Portugal, Spain and France. The project uses a mixed methods approach grounded on agenda-setting and framing theories. Findings help improving our understanding of how narrative (and public perceptions) about the EU emerge and evolve. MEDPOL contributes to the diffusion of content and discourse analysis methods, including dictionary-based and unsupervised machine learning techniques, as well as the use of quantitative/qualitative methods and interdisciplinary approaches devoted to understand the role of the media as a political actor. MEDPOL has contributed to the development of a methodology of data collection and analysis that can be adapted to other cases (countries or other news outlets provided that textual data is accessible. A sample of the data as well as the codes that allow for its analysis are made available for research (non-profit) purposes so other scholars and students can practice and develop data analysis skills. We hope that they will be encouraged to look at other cases and under explored countries. MEDPOL also sheds light on how media coverage - most notably the strong emphasis on conflict frame and negative reporting - may be contributing to distrust in political institutions and in the media itself.

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

Цел на проекта

How do the media report EU affairs, and to what extent may such coverage shape public attitudes and behaviour towards integration? MEDPOL aim is twofold: to investigate how media coverage of the EU has evolved since the signature of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992 until today, and to assess the impact of news content and frames on political attitudes and behaviour towards the EU in different member states. Drawing on various disciplines - Political Science, Communication Studies and Political Economy - the project follows a mixed methods approach grounded on agenda-setting and framing theories. It consists of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of media content in four states: Italy, Portugal, Spain and France. Manual and automated coding of press content and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques will be used to analyse large amounts of textual data while maintaining rigorous methodological standards. MEDPOL brings together content analysis, electoral data and open-access social and economic indicators in order to analyse how issue visibility and media framing may influence electoral behaviour in different countries and social groups. Findings will further our understanding of how certain terms or sentences have been used to frame EU affairs and to express different ideas about the EU. MEDPOL analyses how these frames emerge and evolve over time, and through which mechanisms they may compete with each other and contribute to political polarisation. Finally, MEDPOL contributes to the diffusion of content analysis techniques, mixed methods and interdisciplinary approaches devoted to understand the role of the media as a political actor. Outputs include two peer-reviewed publications, a monograph, an open-access code that allows the method to be adapted to other cases, an academic workshop, a series of evidence-based comments aimed at a non-specialised audience (journalists, policy-makers, watchdog organisations), and public engagement activities.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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