Analysing community reaction to refugees through text analysis of social media data

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3AHAFWC6HQ" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:HAFWC6HQ - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/23:748YMPNU

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2100551" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2100551</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2100551" target="_blank" >10.1080/1369183X.2022.2100551</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysing community reaction to refugees through text analysis of social media data

Original language description

Understanding the social integration of refugees requires scholars and community leaders to understand the complex and varied political reaction of citizens to the prospect and reality of refugees entering their local communities. In this study, we apply the Structural Topic Model (STM) to characterise citizen-level discourse in comments posted in response to refugee-related news articles on Facebook in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Roanoke, Virginia, two cities with similar demographics and conservative partisanship, but sharply contrasting refugee-related policies and experiences. We find that, overall, commenters framed their arguments with an identity-based frame more often than economics, morality, security or legality frames, but that these tended to be blended in ways that obscure the basis in identity. We also find that comments within the discourse of the more refugee-experienced Lancaster community were more likely to involve substantive arguments than in Roanoke, more likely to use economics frames, less likely to use identity frames, less likely to involve incivility and less likely to feature a salient misinformation-influenced theme (refugees vs. homeless veterans). This suggests that host community discourse grows more substantive and positive as a function of hospitable refugee policies and refugee hosting experience, and we discuss how this research might be expanded beyond this pair of cases to evaluate this broader implication.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

ISSN

1369-183X

e-ISSN

1469-9451

Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

43

Pages from-to

492-534

UT code for WoS article

000841131100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85136176922