Was Lampedusa a key event for immigration news? An analysis of the effects of the Lampedusa disaster on immigration coverage in Germany, Belgium, and Italy
Abstract: In the current paper, we investigate how the Lampedusa shipwreck disaster in October 2013 affected newspaper coverage in three European countries (Belgium, Germany, and Italy). Based on data from a quantitative comparative content analysis, we conclude that Lampedusa can be regarded a key event for immigration coverage, but only in Italy, where journalists devoted a considerable amount of attention to the disaster. We also find that the structure and the general tone of immigration coverage changed after the event. However, those changes were only short-termed and immigration coverag... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | acceptedVersion |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | Politics / Mass communications |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26599886 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1661940151162165141 |