Media and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe

Jesper Strömbäck is Professor of Journalism and Political Communication at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on political communication, political news journalism, and opinion formation. Christine E. Meltzer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Mainz. She does research in the field of political communication, with a focus on migration, violence, and gendered aspects of media representation.Jakob-Moritz Eberl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. He does research in the field of political communication, with a focus on media bias, electoral research, and media effects.Christian Schemer is Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. His research interests include political communication and political media effects.Hajo G. Boomgaarden is Professor of Empirical Social Science Methods with a focus on text analysis at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. His research looks at various aspects of political communication and media effects, applying and evaluating advanced computational methods.

• Part I. Introduction1. Setting the stage: Understanding media discourses about and public attitudes toward migration in Europe Jesper Strömbäck, Christine Meltzer, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Christian Schemer, and Hajo G. Boomgaarden 2. How to investigate media discourse about and public attitudes toward migration in Europe: Our approachFabienne Lind and Tobias HeidenreichPart II. Public Attitudes Toward Migration within and into Europe3. Mapping public attitudes toward immigration within and into Europe Hajo G. Boomgaarden and Christine E. Meltzer 4. The influence of self-interested and sociotropic perceptions on immigration attitudes Christine E. Meltzer5. Mobile in Europe: Effects of mobility attitudes and experiences on attitudes toward freedom of movement Fabienne Lind and Christine E. MeltzerPart III. Media Discourse about migration within and into of Europe6. Mapping media coverage of migration within and into Europe Jakob-Moritz Eberl and Sebastian Galyga7. Linguistic features of migration coverage in European mass mediaSebastian Galyga and Fabienne Lind8. Political elites’ migration discourses on social media Tobias Heidenreich and Jakob-Moritz EberlPart IV. Media effects on public attitudes toward migration within and into Europe9. Media effects on attitudes toward immigration: Political sophistication as a shieldJakob-Moritz Eberl and Christine E. Meltzer10. Miscounting the others: Media effects on perceptions of the immigrant population sizeChristine E. Meltzer and Christian Schemer11. How news frames affect immigration attitudes: Perceptions and emotions as underpinning mechanisms?Nora Theorin Part V. Conclusions12. Summary and conclusions: Media discourse about and public attitudes toward migration within and into EuropeJesper Strömbäck, Christine E. Meltzer, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, and Christian Schemer