Migranti e media. Tra allarme e indifferenza

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Articolo

Rivista

STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Fascicolo

STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA - 2021 - 4

Titolo

Migranti e media. Tra allarme e indifferenza

Migrants and the media. Between alarm and indifference

Autore

Claudio Melchior

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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Online da

11-2021

Doi

10.26350/000309_000012

Issn

0039-291X (stampa) | 1827-7896 (digitale)

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Descrizione

In order to analyze the representation of migrants in the Italian media, we focused on three months of the main Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, selecting all the articles with the keyword «migrants». The content analysis shows that the narrative of the medium describes foreigners 1. as an abstract and depersonalized group, where it is not possible to discover any individuality; 2. as «flows», «quotas» or «abstract problems» described in an «alarmist» way. This alarm is not generated by migrants’ characteristics (ethnicity, religion, values, behavior, features that are infrequent in the articles) but by the numbers related to the phenomenon, always «exaggerated», «record», «emergent». This journalistic representation describes migrants in an abstract and depersonalized way as «emergencies», «problems » and «numbers» and the resultant narrative seems to produce indifference to the phenomenon.