Media framing of immigration: A comparison of newspaper coverage in Sweden and the United Kingdom during the 2016 Brussels terrorist attack
(2017) WPMM40 20171Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Through salience and framing, the media has significant power in influencing how the public views a given political, societal, or economic issue. Through the lens of framing theory, this research paper is investigating how immigration was framed in two Swedish and 4 United Kingdom newspapers during the week surrounding the Brussels terrorist attack on 22 March 2016 in a content analysis. By looking at coverage from three days before and three days after the attack, we found the terrorist attack having a larger impact on coverage in the UK than in Sweden. The sample included both broadsheet newspapers and tabloids; the most common frames found in the quality broadsheet newspapers in our sample were conflict and responsibility frames, while... (More)
- Through salience and framing, the media has significant power in influencing how the public views a given political, societal, or economic issue. Through the lens of framing theory, this research paper is investigating how immigration was framed in two Swedish and 4 United Kingdom newspapers during the week surrounding the Brussels terrorist attack on 22 March 2016 in a content analysis. By looking at coverage from three days before and three days after the attack, we found the terrorist attack having a larger impact on coverage in the UK than in Sweden. The sample included both broadsheet newspapers and tabloids; the most common frames found in the quality broadsheet newspapers in our sample were conflict and responsibility frames, while the more right-leaning anti-immigration tabloid in the sample used the threat frame to a larger extent. (Less)
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- author
- Lindström, Laura LU
- supervisor
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- Moira Nelson LU
- organization
- course
- WPMM40 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- framing, media, immigration, terrorism, news
- language
- English
- id
- 8907475
- date added to LUP
- 2017-06-27 14:55:47
- date last changed
- 2017-06-27 14:55:47
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