Dilemmas of Political Parallelism: Polish Weekly Opinion Magazines in the Face of the Migration Crisis of 2015
Dilemmas of Political Parallelism: Polish Weekly Opinion Magazines in the Face of the Migration Crisis of 2015
Author(s): Mariusz Kolczyński, Bernardyna Zemła, Katarzyna CzornikSubject(s): Media studies, Politics and communication, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: migration crisis; mediatisation of politics; political parallelism; political bias; thematic framework;
Summary/Abstract: Within the article activity of media broadcasters during the migration crisis of 2015 has been analysed – the crisis whose peak coincided with the period of political campaign preceding the parliamentary elections in Poland. In this context, strong emphasis on issues related to the migration crisis, which had become one of the leading themes of the parliamentary campaign, could have been expected in Polish press market, especially taking into consideration strong political affiliations of weekly opinion magazines existing in the said market at the time. In the presented article, 207 issues of the following opinion weeklies have been analysed: “Newsweek”, “Polityka”, “wSieci” and “Do Rzeczy”, in order to determine the media importance of migration-related themes and of the level of political parallelism of the studied media (political/axiological or party profiling of media releases). The study used the content analysis method with reference to the concept of framing.
Journal: Athenaeum Polskie Studia Politologiczne
- Issue Year: 80/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 27-41
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English