POLEMICAL SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT ‘IMMIGRATION’ IN JOURNAL ARTICLES OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL POSITIONING VIA FACEBOOK
POLEMICAL SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT ‘IMMIGRATION’ IN JOURNAL ARTICLES OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL POSITIONING VIA FACEBOOK

Author(s): Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, Elena Bocci, Nicola Carpignano
Subject(s): Politics, Migration Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: social representations; immigration; Facebook; political positioning; journal articles; media discourse; ideological polarization
Summary/Abstract: Among the different social discourses diffused through the Internet – and in particular the social media – this contribution focuses on immigration as an object of perceptual distortion and ideological polarization through the lens of Facebook. The diffused perception of the immigrants as the "others", the unknown, foreign is often assimilated with dangerous, extraneous and generally presented in the media as invaders, or stigmatized as potential terrorists, legitimizing fear and evoking the need for barriers and protection of the own territory by the population of the host country. On the other side, they are perceived as social victims or marginalized groups.

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