HPS³ - Adeline Y Lo - Refugees in Modern MediaWe welcome Adeline Y Lo (UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN–MADISON) on May 31st 2023
31. Mai 2023
The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.
We welcome on May 31st 2023, 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 S27 & via Zoom
Adeline Y Lo, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Refugees in Modern Media
Abstract:
The effects of refugee migration permeates most aspects of a recipient society, not least native inclusionary attitudes and behaviors towards refugees. While recent research has emphasized measuring the extent to which direct exposure to refugees affects inclusion, much less is known about the more frequent type of refugee exposure natives experience: seeing refugees through media representation. This project establishes key patterns to how much and in what ways modern media represents refugee stories, how this has changed over time, and explores how major shifts in the ways refugee stories have changed affect native inclusion. We collect and study a unique television corpus from 2014-2019 covering the daily universe of a major public broadcast news show in Germany, the Tagesschau, throughout the period leading up to and following the globally renowned “Open Door” announcement in the Syrian refugee crisis, using image, text and sentiment analyses. We find that the likelihood of Germans watching Tagesschau being exposed to a refugee story has increased over this time period and that such stories have increasingly been told within the topic of criminal justice. We conduct a German nationally representative randomized survey experiment building television interventions off of these two major patterns to causally identify their impacts on native inclusion.
Keywords: migration, refugees, media & communications, image data, text data, randomized experiments
Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.
We invite everyone interested to attend and are looking forward to seeing you.