The Refugee Crisis in the Croatian Digital News: Towards a Computational Political Economy of Communication

Basit Öğe Kaydı
dc.authorscopusid56764248200
dc.authorscopusid57189296580
dc.authorscopusid23096618000
dc.contributor.authorBili?, P.
dc.contributor.authorFurman, I.
dc.contributor.authorYildirim, S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:17:50Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:17:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article tests how media ownership and political leanings influenced textual and linguistic output in the production of narratives during the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe. We focused on digital news reports in Croatia, a country that experienced the highest influx of refugees among the Western Balkan countries in late 2015. Ten news organisations were selected to capture various ownership structures and ideological positions. We collected all articles published by these organisations (N = 352) during the two weeks before and two weeks after the sexual attacks that occurred in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015. The dataset was analysed with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Correspondence Analysis. Our computational political economy of communication (CPEC) approach reveals a relative diversity of concepts used in the sample before the event, and an evident clustering of most viewpoints from media actors in the period after the event. There is a noticeable change from a humanitarian rhetoric to a security-oriented rhetoric that mobilises fear to legitimize stronger control of national borders. Based on the analysis, we argue that the majority of digital news media changed reporting style due to widespread moral panic and the economic incentive to commodify audience interest in the topic of the refugee crisis. In contrast, publicly funded news organizations showed that they provide the necessary counter-balance for informing citizens, producing quality content, and ensuring pluralism in the digital news environment. © The Author 2018en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC; Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAKen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSavaş Yıldırım was born in Erzincan, Turkey in 1975. He graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul and gained his PhD in the same field from Trakya University. Data analysis, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing are among his fields of interest. More specifically, new approaches for corpus based semantic relations extraction, supervised learning algorithms and clustering techniques have been studied and applied to some interesting problems. He has been working also on several scientific projects based on those fields funded by the Technology Council of Turkish Government. There are a variety of projects ranging from social problems to industrial-engineering ones. The projects have been widely developed using by open source software like R, Weka and some important programming languages like Python, Java, R and their important libraries.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipIvo Furman is an assistant professor at the Department of Media at Istanbul Bilgi University. He completed his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2015. His research has been supported by numerous institutions including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, and Stiftung Mercator. He recently completed a 2-year research grant funded by the Turkish Science and Technology Foundation (TUBITAK). His research interests include computer assisted methods focusing on Twitter and Instagram, digital sociology, sociology of data and data journalism. His upcoming publication Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring will be featured in Palgrave Macmillan'sTechnologiesofLabourandthePoliticsofContradiction (2018).en_US
dc.identifier.endpage82en_US
dc.identifier.issn2357-1705
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85065663344en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4en_US
dc.identifier.startpage59en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6769
dc.identifier.volume6en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Association of Media Communication Researchen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPolitical Economy of Communicationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectDigital News İndustryen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Refugee Crisisen_US
dc.subjectMoral Panicsen_US
dc.subjectNon-Profit Mediaen_US
dc.titleThe Refugee Crisis in the Croatian Digital News: Towards a Computational Political Economy of Communicationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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