{"id":2088,"date":"2023-03-03T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/?post_type=publications&p=2088"},"modified":"2023-06-13T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:28:01","slug":"migration-narrative-in-media-and-social-media-the-case-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/publications\/migration-narrative-in-media-and-social-media-the-case-of-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration narrative in media and social media: the case of Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Markus Rheindorf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz<\/a> (CUAS Mainz)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How can we understand the success of certain migration narratives in traditional media and on social media in Germany? To answer this question, this Working Paper<\/em> analyses three migration-related events across German newspapers and TV broadcasters, as well as on Twitter: the debates over taking in refugees from the Moria camp<\/strong> after a devastating fire in September 2020; the introduction of a new integration law in 2016<\/strong>; and the terrorist attack on a Christmas market<\/strong> in Berlin in December 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report uses a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis across the media covered, complemented by 12 in-depth interviews with journalists from traditional German media. The results show that newspapers and television reporting follows traditional news values in determining narrative success<\/strong>, almost completely excluding the voices of migrants. Twitter, on the other hand, tends to polarise debates, elevating extreme positions and scandal<\/strong> to the strongest factors determining the success of a given narrative. For migrants to be heard in either context depends on whether they fulfil hegemonic expectations regarding their positionality and on the frames used in their narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Working Paper analyses the main narratives on migration developed in traditional and social media around three different case studies in Germany: the debate over taking in refugees from the Moria camp after a fire in September 2020; a new integration law in 2016; and the terrorist attack in Berlin in December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"type_of_publication":[7],"topic":[13],"country":[19],"class_list":{"0":"post-2088","1":"publications","2":"type-publications","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"type_of_publication-working-papers","8":"topic-narratives-production","9":"country-germany","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/2088\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type_of_publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_of_publication?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridges-migration.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}