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Τύπος:	Ανακοίνωση σε συνέδριο
Τίτλος:	Media representations of refugees and immigrants and their effects on people’s perceptions and attitudes
Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Καλφέλη, Παναγιώτα[EN] Kalfeli, Panayiota [EL] Γαρδικιώτης, Αντώνης[EN] Gardikiotis, Antonis [EL] Αγγελή, Χριστίνα[EN] Angeli, Christina [EL] Φραγκονικολόπουλος, Χρήστος[EN] Frangonikolopoulos, Christos
Ημερομηνία:	Σεπ-2021
Περίληψη:	This paper examines how refugee representation in the media, during a period of a prolonged refugee crisis, affects audience’s stereotypes and prejudice. Two distinct theoretical lines drawn from journalism and social psychology are brought together to answer this question. On the one hand, peace journalism is used as an analytical framework to describe and understand refugee and immigrant representation in the media and, on the other hand, a social psychological approach to stereotyping and prejudice is employed in order to understand the effects of media representation on people’s perceptions and evaluations of refugees and immigrants. Peace journalism was employed as a framework capable to provide a richer and more complete understanding of complex media representations of diversity by investigating overlooked, non-elite discourses and focusing on people rather than the policymakers (Galtung, 2006; Youngblood, 2017). Relevant social psychological research has shown the significant effects of media representation of refugees and immigrants on audience perceptions and emotions, and how stereotypical representations lead to increased prejudice (Ramasubramanian, 2011). The present study first examined how refugees are represented in different traditional and online Greek media sources over a period of three months. Employing a peace journalism framework we analyzed media representation by using of a broader set of criteria, including absence and presence of refugees’ voice in media content, traditional stereotypes and counter-stereotypes, media’s attention to refugees only in the presence of negative events related to it, absence or presence of solutions and context, among many others. The content analysis of the selected Greek media revealed a stereotypical representation of refugees and extensive lack of solutions related to refugee issues, absence of refugees’ voice and insufficient context. After the analysis of media content, we examined how the different media stories are perceived by audience members by employing an experimental (between subjects) methodological design. Participants were exposed to different refugee representations and were asked to fill in a battery of questions tapping on stereotype content (how refugees are perceived in terms of warmth and competency, Fiske et al., 2002), prejudice (how participants evaluate refugees, Dixon, 2008), intergroup emotions (how participants feel about refugees, Smith & Mackie, 2010) perceived threat (whether they perceive refugees as a realistic or symbolic threat, Atwell Seate & Mastro, 2015). Preliminary results show that refugee representation affects people’s cognitive, evaluative, and emotional reactions, stressing the importance of media content on the way the audience develops its views of refugees in general.
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
Τόπος δημοσίευσης:	Virtual Conference
Σελίδες:	22
Θεματική κατηγορία:	[EL] Μέσα επικοινωνίας[EN] Media
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© The Author(s) 2021
Όνομα εκδήλωσης:	8th European Communication Conference - Communication and Trust
Τοποθεσία εκδήλωσης:	Online Conference
Ημ/νία έναρξης εκδήλωσης:	06/09/2021
Ημ/νία λήξης εκδήλωσης:	09/09/2021
Σημειώσεις:	https://ecrea.eu/news/10283103 Operational Programme «Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning. Co-financed by Greece and the European Union
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