Twitter as social media arena for polarised social representations about the (im)migration: The controversial discourse in the Italian and international political frame
| Autor: | Marco Salvati, Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, Mattia Bonito, Elena Bocci |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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social representations
(im)migrants social media multi-agent discourse geo-political positioning social media 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Media studies 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology geo-political positioning Politics 0508 media and communications social representations (im)migrants multi-agent discourse Political science Frame (artificial intelligence) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social media Demography |
| Popis: | Grounded in social representation theory and its empirical investigation into the ‘social arena’, inspired by the ‘modelling paradigmatic approach’, the research presented in this article is part of a larger project aimed at reconstructing the ‘multi-voice’, and ‘multi-agent’ discourse about (im)migration. Specifically, this contribution’s focus is on the exploration of shaping and sharing social representations about (im)migrants through communication via the social medium ‘Twitter’. A total of 1,958 tweets (967 Italian and 991 English tweets) were analysed through Systeme Portable Pour L’Analyse Des Donnees Textuelles [Portable System for Textual Data Analysis]SPAD in two lexical correspondence analyses. The results show a dichotomous discourse organising a semantic space structured around five different factors for the two distinct Twitter corpora: both clearly show polarised social representations of ‘immigrants–migrants’, leading to exclusion–inclusion policies depending on the discursive agent’s ideological affiliation in the Italian and the international political frame. Used as a propaganda tool, Twitter echoes the related pro- and anti-immigration polemical representations of opposite political leaders in posts that are positioned differently in relation to the progressive/conservative ideology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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