Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe
This book examines the European refugee crisis, offering an in-depth comparativeanalysis of howpublic attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage.
An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towardsrefugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research.
The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and online news reception.
Manlio Cinalli holds a Chair of Sociology at the University of Milan and is Associate Research Director at CEVIPOF (CNRS UMR 7048), Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of Political Integration of Muslims in France (Palgrave, 2017), and has published widely on citizenship in international journals.
Hans-Jrg Trenz is Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen and at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main field of interests are European media and the public sphere, migration and ethnic minorities, cultural and political sociology.
Verena K. Brndle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna and recipient of an International Postdoctoral Grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Her main research interests focus on critical migration studies and political communication.
Olga Eisele is a postdoctoral researcher at Vienna University. In her work, she focusses on media discourses, the European Union, crisis communication and the relationship and mutual influence of media and politics.
Christian Lahusen holds a Chair of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at Siegen University, Germany. His research interests include social theories, political sociology and the sociology of European societies and European integration.
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Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe
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Names: Cinalli, Manlio, author. | Trenz, Hans-Jorg, author. | Brandle, Verena K., author. | Eisele, Olga, author. | Lahusen, Christian, author.
Title: Solidarity in the media and public contention over refugees in Europe / Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jorg Trenz, Verena K. Brandle, Olga Eisele, Christian Lahusen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in media, communication and politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020047345 (print) | LCCN 2020047346 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367419950 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367817169 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Mass media and immigrants--Europe. | Refugees--Europe--Public opinion. | Refugees--Press coverage--Europe. | Solidarity--Europe.
Classification: LCC P94.5.I482 C56 2021 (print) | LCC P94.5.I482 (ebook) | DDC 302.23086/912--dc23
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Verena K. Brndle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, and recipient of an International Postdoctoral Grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). Since 2020 she is Principal Investigator of the DFF-funded project Informing to Dissuade? Governments Digital Information Campaigns for Migrants as Bordering Practices. Her research is located at the intersection of critical migration/border studies, political communication and migration governance. She is further interested in the role of the state in internet infrastructure regulation.
Manlio Cinalli holds a Chair of Sociology at the University of Milan and is Associate Research Director at CEVIPOF (CNRS UMR 7048), Sciences Po Paris. He has delivered teaching and research in various leading universities and institutes across Europe and the USA including, among others, Columbia University, the EUI and the University of Oxford. He has many large grant awards, and has been publishing widely on citizenship and political integration. His research relies on a multidisciplinary approach that combines contentious politics, political behaviour and policy studies.
