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“Untouched by your Do-gooder Propaganda” : How Online User Comments Challenge the Journalistic Framing of the Immigration Crisis

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Rosenfeldová J., Vochocová L.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2022

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vol. 15

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issue 2(31)

227-245

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The role of the media in polarizing the debate on immigration has been subject to a growing amount of research; yet little is known about whether and how online comment sections related to news articles on immigration reshape the journalistic narrative. This study examines readers’ reactions to the media coverage by employing a quantitative content analysis of over 6,000 users’ comments responding to 128 online news articles on immigration. It concludes that generally the discussants’ perspective does not differ significantly from the medium’s framing of the issue with one important exception: the human rights frame accentuated by the medium is strictly refused by the discussants. The discussants also bring the economic and cultural aspects of immigration into the debate. The article thus contributes to a more general understanding of the role the users’ discussions play in shaping the debates on controversial political issues.

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Sociální média jako nová výzva pro výzkum politické participace

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Švelch J., Vochocová L.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2015

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vol. 51

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issue 1

65-88

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This article aims to synthesise existing theoretical and empirical work on political participation in social media, a topic especially relevant but still under-researched in post-transformation countries such as the Czech Republic. It argues for encouraging productive dialogue between the political science approach to participation research and the work in media and communication studies. First, the article sums up normative and theoretical standpoints taken when discussing and researching new media, society, and participation. It then reviews existing empirical findings from various countries. It concludes that there is no consensus on either the positive or negative effects that social media have on the extent to which people participate in political life. A possible reason for this lack of consensus is that theories of online political participation are underdeveloped. Any such theories should take into account the unique affordances of social media and the resulting social dynamics of their use.

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Red danger before elections: Trick or threat?

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Křeček J., Vochocová L.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2009

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vol. 2

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issue 2(3)

307-318

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Before the parliamentary election in 2006 we focused on the tendency of the Czech soci- ety and especially media to exclude one of the parliamentary parties – the Communist Party – from the government and to actively construct its status as specific. We designate this tendency as anti-com- munism, a word commonly used in the Czech political communication. According to our outcomes, anti-communism was a remarkable trend at the pages of at least three Czech dailies: Mladá Fronta DNES, Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny. The anti-communism as performed in their content was not only a media representation of an all-society phenomenon. It was actively constructed and supported by the journalists, editors and publicists of these dailies. Especially the two fi rst mentioned newspapers can be perceived as actively anti-communist media both in the sense of their own involve- ment (the agenda setting, the content of editorials, etc.) and the manifest support of anti-communist voices (even PR information at the news pages). Právo, the fourth analyzed newspaper, can be by contrast characterized as anti-anticommunist or at least anti-antileftist trying to construct a more positive image of the Communist Party and challenging the anti-communist tendencies

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“Untouched by your Do-gooder Propaganda” : How Online User Comments Challenge the Journalistic Framing of the Immigration Crisis

Sociální média jako nová výzva pro výzkum politické participace

Red danger before elections: Trick or threat?