Will Conflict Tear us Apart? The Effects of Conflict and Valenced Media Messages on Polarizing Attitudes Toward EU Immigration and Border Control
- Autor(en)
- Marijan van Klingeren, Hajo Boomgaarden, Claes de Vreese
- Abstrakt
European migration and border control has occupied a prominent spot on the European political agenda. The news media present the topic in a polarized fashion and reports conflicting viewpoints on how the European Union (EU) and national governments should address the issue. We argue that this conflict in news messages can have a polarizing effect on public perceptions regarding the EU's performance on this topic, and that this effect can be moderated by the valence of news messages. A two-wave online panel survey experiment was conducted on a representative sample of the Dutch population (n = 376). The results indicate that conflict reinforces and thus polarizes policy attitudes, whereas a message's valence can change people's attitudes, which reduces the attitudinal gap. The implications of these findings concerning European border control and migration are discussed in the final section of this paper.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of Amsterdam (UvA)
- Journal
- Public Opinion Quarterly
- Band
- 81
- Seiten
- 543-563
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 21
- ISSN
- 0033-362X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfw051
- Publikationsdatum
- 05-2017
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508009 Medienforschung, 508008 Medienanalyse
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften, Communication, History, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/37042de6-a131-4ae2-999e-def3f92f6d51