Discontentment trumps Euphoria

Autor(en)

Tobias Heidenreich, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Fabienne Lind, Hajo Boomgaarden

Abstrakt

We investigate user engagement with politicians’ migration discourses on social media. In particular, we study the effects of message framing and support base attitudes on interactions on Facebook and Twitter in five European countries. Enriching automated analysis of social media content with survey data in a multilevel negative binomial regression approach, findings show that migration-related messages tend to elicit more interactions than other kinds of messages. Furthermore, the presence of a security frame in a migration-related message positively relates to user engagement. However, additional analyses suggest that the relevance of these frames differ between different political parties. In fact, a message gets an even higher number of interactions, when the dimension of the migration issue included in those framed messages is perceived more negatively by a party’s support base. The findings have important implications for communication strategies of political actors and the state of migration discourses on social media.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Journal

New Media & Society

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

1461-4448

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14614448221074648

Publikationsdatum

02-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/discontentment-trumps-euphoria(f555265b-1158-453e-808e-f8fdee3b8182).html