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Beyond the Refugee Crisis how the UK news media represent asylum seekers across national boundaries
Migration is one of the most pressing, divisive issues in global politics today, and media play a crucial role in how communities understand and respond. This study examines how UK newspapers (n = 974) and popular news websites (n = 1044) reported on asylum seekers throughout 2017. It contributes to previous literature in two important ways. First, by examining the ânew normalâ of daily news coverage in the wake of the 2015 ârefugee crisisâ in Europe. Second, by looking at how asylum seekers from different regions are represented. The content analysis finds significant variations in how asylum seekers are reported, including terminology use and topics they are associated with. The paper also identifies important commonalities in how all asylum seekers are represented - most notably, the dominance of political elites as sources across all media content. It argues that Entmanâs âcascade network modelâ can help to explain this, with elites in one country able to influence transnational reports
Leaping and dancing with digitality : Exploring human-smartphone-entanglements in classrooms
This chapter explores digitality as part of young peopleâs everyday lives in the Arctic. It is based on two ethnographic studies situated in the political context of the âdigital leapâ, the governmental and curricular emphasis on digitality in education in Finland. With the more formal âdigital leapâ, informal engagements and attachments with digitality intertwine, in which studentsâ own smartphones play an increasingly significant role. The analyses use the notion of entanglement (Barad) to examine how primary school and upper secondary school students emerge in their situated and specific encounters with smartphones in school. The starting points of things, bodies, affect, time and space open up insights to connectivity between young peopleâs digital activities and global economic networks as well as to the multidirectionality between humans and technologies: while the students access their digital devices, the digitalities also access their users. We suggest that this wilder form of âdigital leapâ requires reconsidering materiality, affect, and instability of space and time.Peer reviewe
The Discursive Denial of Racism by Finnish Populist Radical Right Politicians Accused of Anti-Muslim Hate-Speech
This chapter explores Finnish populist radical right politiciansâ discursive denials of racism against Muslims following the 2015 European ârefugee crisisâ. The critical discursive psychological analysis of the politiciansâ Facebook accounts identifies four ways in which racism was denied: first, through constructing the statements as mere displays of undisputable facts and common-sense; second, through personal narratives and ontological gerrymandering that acted as âproofâ of the politicianâs non-racist disposition; third, through transferring the discussion from issues about race to concern matters of cultural threats; and, fourth, through reversing racism to the politiciansâ political antagonists. The analyses show that in their discursive denial of racist hate-speech against Muslims, the Finnish politicians relied more on cultural arguments than welfare-protectionist ones. That is, the denials were primarily warranted through nostalgic references to Finnish national identity, people and values, and rhetorical promises that the hope of saving these rests on resisting the cultural threat posed by Islam.Peer reviewe