Immigration and the British news media: Continuity or change?

Smith, David; Deacon, David

doi:10.1111/soc4.12618

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“…To an extent, this is neither unexpected nor a departure from analog (i.e. pre-digital) media: moves toward quantification and statistical reasoning throughout history have always involved aggregation (Desrosières, 1998), and studies into legacy media representations of migration show how “masses” of migrants predominate (Smith and Deacon, 2018). What is more, paraphrasing Haraway’s (1988) language, my results suggest migrants are simultaneously everywhere and nowhere: everywhere in the sense that migrants appear to occupy entire nation-states, and nowhere in the sense that charts tend to strip away contextual details about migrants’ varied origins and locations to focus on their quantitative stocks.…”

Section: Discussion: the Politics Of Making Migrants And Migration Vi...mentioning

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The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

Allen

2021

New Media & Society

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What visual features characterize online migration data visualizations, and what do they suggest for the politics of representing migration and informing public attitudes? Audiences increasingly encounter quantitative information through visualization, especially in digital environments. Yet visualizations have political dimensions that manifest themselves through “conventions,” or shared symbols and practices conveying meaning. Using content analysis, I identify patterns of representation in a sample of 277 migration data visualizations scraped from Google Images. I find evidence of several conventions including appeals to objectivity and traceability as well as perspectives and units of analysis centered on states—particularly higher income migrant destinations. Then, by locating my analysis within the growing field of digital migration studies, I argue these conventions potentially shape public attitudes and understandings about migrants, and contribute to broader migration politics involving categorization and quantification that have relevance both on- and off-line.

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Section: Discussion: the Politics Of Making Migrants And Migration Vi...mentioning

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The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

Allen

2021

New Media & Society

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“…When, as late as 2010, Michael Gove – then Secretary of State for Education – dismissed the authority of professional historians who had problematised British imperial history and aimed (unsuccessfully) to impose a ‘history as celebration’ curriculum, that is, one that assumed a progressive linear history moved forward by great British ‘heroes’ and British institutions – the best in the world – he was merely reflecting a four-decades old Conservative Party’s education policy, as well as the ideological work of Conservative think tanks, politicians and newspapers (Watson, 2020). Meanwhile, tabloids kept dealing in racist tropes and ‘Euromyths’, and public television dedicated documentaries and series to Britain’s historical international beneficence (Richardson, 2004; Saeed, 2007; Smith and Deacon, 2018; van Dijk, 2015).…”

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Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance

Mihai

2021

Political Studies

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This article identifies a blind spot in constructivist theories of representation and their account of legitimacy in terms of the challenge posed by ecologies of social ignorance, generally and especially during foundational moments. Social ignorance is conceptualised here not merely as the absence of knowledge or true belief but as a social practice of legitimising epistemically problematic political imaginaries and the institutional systems they underpin. In dialogue with social epistemologists and phenomenologists, the article shows how representation can nurture social ignorance, despite the availability of ample opportunities for political contestation and alternative opinion formation. A permanent feature of democratic politics, this problem becomes most salient during moments of constitutional re-founding, such as regime change, post-conflict reconstruction or constitutional referenda, when representative claims can reconfigure a community’s political imaginary, rendering it more or less ignorant. The representative claims made by the Vote Leave’s key figures during the Brexit referendum campaign serve as illustration.

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Herkunftsnennung von Täter*innen und Verdächtigen in der Verbrechensberichterstattung

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ZusammenfassungJournalist*innen und Kommunikationsverantwortliche bei Sicherheits- und Justizbehörden veröffentlichen zahlreiche Mitteilungen über Straftaten. Häufig besteht dabei die Notwendigkeit zu entscheiden, wie mit einer migrantischen Herkunft von Tatbeteiligten oder ihrer Zugehörigkeit zu von Rassismus betroffenen Gruppen publizistisch umzugehen ist. Diese Entscheidungen können weitreichende Folgen haben und berühren verschiedene Aspekte der Menschenwürde, der gesellschaftlichen Teilhabe und der behördlichen wie medialen Transparenz. Deshalb gibt unser Beitrag eine Empfehlung, ob und wann die Herkunft beziehungsweise Gruppenzugehörigkeit von Verdächtigen oder Täter*innen offengelegt werden sollte. Diese Empfehlung ist wissenschaftlich hergeleitet und im Austausch mit einer interprofessionellen Expert*innengruppe erarbeitet worden. Sie soll keine Vorgaben verkünden, sondern bei einer reflektierten, verantwortungsbewussten und von Sachkenntnis getragenen Einzelfallentscheidung in der täglichen Kommunikationspraxis helfen. Eine „Checkliste“ von Fragen zielt darauf, Medienschaffende und Kommunikationsverantwortliche zusätzlich zu kodifizierten Leitlinien (z. B. Redaktionsstatuten, Ministerialerlassen und Ziffer 12.1 des Pressekodex des Deutschen Presserates) bei Entscheidungen zu unterstützen, die oftmals unter Zeitdruck gefällt werden müssen.

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Immigration and the British news media: Continuity or change?

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance

Herkunftsnennung von Täter*innen und Verdächtigen in der Verbrechensberichterstattung

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