Now you see me, now you don’t: applying automated content analysis to track migrant women’s salience in German news

Lind, Fabienne; Meltzer, Christine E.

doi:10.1080/14680777.2020.1713840

Cited by 19 publications

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“…When migration intersects with gender, relevant issues arise. Studies have shown that the representation of migrant women in the news is scant (Collins, 2011;Lind and Meltzer, 2021;Silva and Mendes, 2009). According to Liu (2020), media mainly makes men the default migrant, while turning women invisible.…”

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Stereotypes, disproportions, and power asymmetries in the visual portrayal of migrants in ten countries: an interdisciplinary AI-based approach

Olier

Spadavecchia

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The visual portrayal of social groups in media reinforces stereotypes and narratives, potentially leading to discriminatory actions and policies. That is particularly true for underrepresented or stigmatized groups such as migrants and is a phenomenon that varies per country. Therefore, studying the representation of migrants requires analyzing considerable amounts of visual data from different locations. This work addresses that challenge with an interdisciplinary approach characterizing the visual portrayal of migrants using Deep Learning techniques and analyzing results through the lenses of migration and gender studies. Images associated with migrants found on the internet through a search engine and from ten countries are processed to quantify and analyze the demographic and emotional information of the people portrayed. An intersectional approach is employed regarding gender, age, physical features, and emotions. The general group “migrants” is compared with the specific groups “refugees” and “expats”. Results suggest that portrayals predominantly focus on asylum seekers and associate them with poverty and risks for host societies. Moreover, the demographics in the portrayals do not match the official statistics. For expats, an over-representation of “white” and an under-representation of “asian” faces were found, while for migrants and refugees, depictions align with the demographics of low-skilled migrants. Furthermore, results evidence the power struggle underlying the “expat vs. migrant” dichotomy and its inherent colonial nature. The emotions displayed are predominantly negative and align with emotional and gender stereotypes literature. Positive emotions are more associated with women than men, and with expats than refugees and migrants. Previous results regarding the under-representation of migrant women in media are confirmed. Also, women are portrayed as younger than men, and expat women are the youngest. Children appear more in pictures associated with refugees and migrants than with expats. Likewise, migrants are often depicted as crowds, but when that is not the case, migrant and refugee women appear in larger groups than men. A higher proportion of images associated with expats do not contain people. All these effects, however, differ per location. Finally, we suggest future directions and analyze possible limitations of automatic visual content analysis using existing Deep Learning models.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Stereotypes, disproportions, and power asymmetries in the visual portrayal of migrants in ten countries: an interdisciplinary AI-based approach

Olier

Spadavecchia

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…Prior research suggests that frame usage in immigration news is highly dependent on immigrant group, news outlet, and context (see, e.g., Heidenreich et al, 2019;Jacobs, Meeusen, and D'Haenens, 2018;Kroon, Trilling, Van Selm, and Vliegenthart, 2019;Lind and Meltzer, 2020;Wallace, 2018). Yet, several overarching frame-clusters reoccur.…”

Section: Immigration Discourses In Mass Mediamentioning

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New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Czymara

Klingeren

2021

Communications

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News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

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“…The media further the everyday bordering of migrant women by dismissing their contribution (Yuval-Davis et al 2018;Harvey 2018). Even when migrant women's economic visibility is recognized, the media discount migrant women's economic contribution and importance to the host country (Lind and Meltzer 2020). Instead, the stereotypical migrant women who make an economic impact are validated by the remittances they send home (Le Goff 2016).…”

Section: Immigrants' Economic Visibilitymentioning

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Gendering immigration: media framings of the economic and cultural consequences of immigration

Liu

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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The media are found to be racialized in framing immigration. Yet, little is known about how the media across regions are gendered in their framings of immigration as economic and cultural issues. Drawing from a representative sample of newspapers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the U.K., and the U.S., this paper conducts a framing analysis of over 1,700 news articles to examine the media's gendering of the economic and cultural consequences of immigration. This paper shows that the media identify migrant men at a higher rate than women when framing immigration as an economic issue and that the media identify migrant women at a higher rate when framing immigration as a cultural issue. However, the findings also suggest that the media do so subtlythe gender of immigrants is rarely revealed but implicitly suggested via stereotypes and cues. This paper provides empirical evidence supporting feminist theory and fills a gap in current literature by adding the intersectional dimensions taking gender and migrant status into account. It offers insight into how the media discursively construct migrant men and women are to illustrate the gendered divison of their impact on the economy and culture.

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Now you see me, now you don’t: applying automated content analysis to track migrant women’s salience in German news

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Stereotypes, disproportions, and power asymmetries in the visual portrayal of migrants in ten countries: an interdisciplinary AI-based approach

Stereotypes, disproportions, and power asymmetries in the visual portrayal of migrants in ten countries: an interdisciplinary AI-based approach

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Gendering immigration: media framings of the economic and cultural consequences of immigration

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