Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 890335
The Political Economy of Moral Panics: A Computational Social Science Analysis
The Political Economy of Moral Panics: A Computational Social Science Analysis // 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities
Atena, Grčka, 2017. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
The Political Economy of Moral Panics: A Computational Social Science Analysis
Autori
Bilić, Paško ; Furman, Ivo ; Yildirim, Savas
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Skup
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities
Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 29.08.2017. - 01.09.2017
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
Political economy of communication, moral panics, refugee crisis
Sažetak
The purpose of this paper is to test how ownership and ideological leaning influence textual and linguistic output in the production of media narratives during the refugee crisis. We focus on media reports in Croatia, a country which experienced the highest influx of refugees in late 2015. Ten media organisations were selected to capture various ownership types (commercial, public, non-profit) and ideological positions (right-wing, public service, left-wing). We collected all articles published by these organisations (N = 352) in the period of two weeks before the sexual attacks that occurred in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve, and all articles published two weeks after the attacks. The dataset was analysed by using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Correspondence Analysis. The most noticeable change between the analysed time periods is the relative diversity of concepts used in the sample before the event, and an evident clustering of most media actors in the period after the event. The prominence of concepts such as “us” and “we” in the period after the attacks points towards a newly constructed line between “us” and “them” as “refugee sex offenders” and “refugee terrorists”. Overall, there is a noticeable change from a humanitarian discourse to a security oriented discourse which mobilises fear to impose stronger control of national borders. We argue that our empirical data confirms the moral panic theory (Cohen 1972), and in particular the political economy of moral panic approach which calls for the exploration of the relations between power, material interests and culture (Critcher 2011).
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Sociologija
