From Language to Social Perception of Immigration
| Autor: | Carmela Scoppetta, Flavio Merenda, Anastasia Alfieri, Sonia Lay, Raffaele Manna, Annalisa Colasanto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ and Its Natural Language Processing Applications ISBN: 9783319734194 NooJ |
| Popis: | Mass media plays a very important role in shaping and controlling public opinion. This study focuses on exploring how media affects Italian people’s attitudes and perceptions towards one of the most complex social phenomena of modern society, immigration. The aim of the authors is to be both comprehensive and neutral in their analysis. As stated in the Cambridge Dictionary, “Immigration is the act of someone coming to live in a different country”, and involves “the process of examining your passport and other documents to make certain that you can be allowed to enter the country, or the place where this is done” (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/immigration). Data was collected from different sources: a corpus of 180 articles, taken from blogs and daily newspapers of different political orientations, and a second corpus including people’s comments related to these articles. NooJ’s multi-layer approach has allowed the research group to create different syntactic grammars and domain-dictionaries, with the purpose of mining relevant pieces of information from the corpora and comparing the results collected by each member. The group has performed several analyses to assess the validity of preliminary hypotheses on “How media convey dominant ideologies” and, consequently, “How Italian people perceive immigration”. In doing so, it was possible to extract and compare data providing information about the main messages spread to the population, as well as other significant aspects of the analyzed phenomenon. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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