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Social Media Society and Law during the Migrant Crisis: three cases from the Italian experience.

Dal Monte, Marco LU (2021) SOLM12 20211
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract (Swedish)
This thesis aims to start from the Branco-Shatz submission aims to analyze the
influence of social media in the Legal framework during the migration crisis in Italy
through quantitive methods such as data scraping from the comments present in
Facebook in public news agencies posts as well as word counting of both the legislation
and the comments before mentioned. On top of that, qualitative methods is used in
order to understand and interpret the context as well as the conclusions given by the
quantitive data. After the utilization of such methods, it emerged that the Italian
narrative in social media and legislation seems to collide, first in depicting the migrants
as an economic threat, and secondly in criminalizing them. In both... (More)
This thesis aims to start from the Branco-Shatz submission aims to analyze the
influence of social media in the Legal framework during the migration crisis in Italy
through quantitive methods such as data scraping from the comments present in
Facebook in public news agencies posts as well as word counting of both the legislation
and the comments before mentioned. On top of that, qualitative methods is used in
order to understand and interpret the context as well as the conclusions given by the
quantitive data. After the utilization of such methods, it emerged that the Italian
narrative in social media and legislation seems to collide, first in depicting the migrants
as an economic threat, and secondly in criminalizing them. In both cases, a clear
dehumanization of the individual is achieved. (Less)
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Dal Monte, Marco LU
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SOLM12 20211
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H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
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English
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9069279
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2022-01-04 10:37:43
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  abstract     = {{This thesis aims to start from the Branco-Shatz submission aims to analyze the
influence of social media in the Legal framework during the migration crisis in Italy
through quantitive methods such as data scraping from the comments present in
Facebook in public news agencies posts as well as word counting of both the legislation
and the comments before mentioned. On top of that, qualitative methods is used in
order to understand and interpret the context as well as the conclusions given by the
quantitive data. After the utilization of such methods, it emerged that the Italian
narrative in social media and legislation seems to collide, first in depicting the migrants
as an economic threat, and secondly in criminalizing them. In both cases, a clear
dehumanization of the individual is achieved.}},
  author       = {{Dal Monte, Marco}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Social Media Society and Law during the Migrant Crisis: three cases from the Italian experience.}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}