Twitter as social media arena for polarised social representations about the (im) migration: The controversial discourse in the Italian and international political frame

AS De Rosa, E Bocci, M Bonito, M Salvati - Migration Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Grounded in social representation theory and its empirical investigation into the 'social
arena', inspired by the 'modelling paradigmatic approach', the research presented in this …

[HTML][HTML] Semantic contact and semantic barriers: Reactionary responses to disruptive ideas

A Gillespie - Current opinion in psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Shifts focus from disruptors (eg crowds) to the disrupted (eg establishment).•How
do the disrupted resist potentially transformative ideas?•Methodology for analyzing people …

The representation of immigration. A retrospective newspaper analysis

BM Mazzara, E Avdi, I Kadianaki, I Koutri… - Journal of Immigrant …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The article reports a comparative study of the representation of migration in media from three
countries (Greece, Italy, and Turkey), over 2001–2018 period. Analysis showed the salience …

Influence of the popular media on attitudes of pre-service primary school teachers in Spain towards refugees

MBS Pedro-Veledo… - Issues in Educational …, 2023 - search.informit.org
There are perceived economic and security concerns related to immigration and refugees
among the population in many countries and the media sometimes convey an image of …

Constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity: Ideological dilemmas, antiracism and implications for identity

T Iatridis, I Kadianaki - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dilemmas around differences among people may encapsulate ideological assumptions
deep‐rooted in modernity, according to work on ideological dilemmas. In this article, we …

Migrant racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis

M Avraamidou, E Eftychiou - International Communication …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This work examines how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the migration
debate on Twitter. Through co-hashtag network analysis, time-frequency and content …

(Un) Reporting Xenophobia: Normalising and Resisting Officials' Discriminatory Discourse on Migration in Online Journalism in Cyprus

D Trimithiotis, C Voniati - Journalism Practice, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article draws on existing research suggesting that media discourses may contribute in
normalising xenophobia. Its objective is to advance these studies by investigating not only …

Migrants as 'pawns': Antimigrant debates on Twitter and their affinity to European border politics and discourses

M Avraamidou, M Ioannou - European Journal of Cultural …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how Europe's border crises in the post refugee 'crisis' years were
discussed in the micro-blog Twitter, through an in-depth analysis of boundary making. Our …

“Innocent” Hashtags? A Cautionary Tale:# IStandWithGreece as a Network of Intolerance on Twitter During a Land Border Crisis

M Avraamidou, M Ioannou… - International Journal of …, 2021 - research.rug.nl
This study explores the hashtag# IStandWithGreece as part of the meaning-making
processes on Twitter around a border crisis at Europe's periphery, the Greek–Turkish land …

The “refugee crisis” as a eurocentric media construct: An exploratory analysis of pro-migrant media representations in the Guardian and the New York Times

M Avraamidou - TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open …, 2020 - triple-c.at
This article presents a critical analysis of how two elite media publications in the United
States and the United Kingdom, the New York Times and the Guardian/Observer …