Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe

• Main Authors: Cinalli, Manlio, Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Brändle, Verena, Eisele, Olga, Lahusen, Christian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milton Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
• Subjects: comparative analysis; contesting solidarity; Cultural and media studies; European; European refugee crisis; Interdisciplinary studies; Journalism & Professional Media; journalism studies; mass media; Mass media and immigrants; Media Communication; Media Studies; news media; Nonfiction; political contention; Political Science; Politics; Politics & the Media; Politics and government; Public opinion; public spheres; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Refugees; Regional / International studies; Regional Studies; social media; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Solidarity; World
• ISBN: 9780367419950; 9780367753221; 0367753227; 0367419955; 9780367817169; 1000370445; 0367817160; 9781000370447; 1000370488; 9781000370485
• DOI: 10.4324/9780367817169

This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public 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 towards refugees 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.