Media and Social Representations of Otherness
Psycho-Social-Cultural Implications
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Beschreibung
This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.
This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.
Presents the first major European project examining the media and social representations of different otherness in the context of religion, migration, or sexual orientation Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the relation between cultural dynamics, socio-institutional phenomena and policy Combines a diachronic and synchronic description of complex representations of otherness
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Terri Mannarini
Themen in »Media and Social Representations of Otherness«
Identity-Otherness Dynamics Cultural Dynamics in European Societies European Media Representations of Immigrants European Media Representations of Islam European Media Representations of LGBT Social Representations Theory Social Representations of Immigrations in Europe Refugee Crisis in Europe Muslim Communities in Europe Social Representations of LGBT People in Europe media research