News Coverage and Public Concern about Immigration in Britain

Autor(en)

Hajo Boomgaarden, Lauren McLaren, Rens Vliegenthart

Abstrakt

This study investigates the causes of fluctuations in public concern about immigration and contends that issues emphasized in media coverage explain these fluctuations. Drawing on agenda-setting research and theories about issue attributes, it is argued that media emphasis on aspects of immigration that are likely to be unobtrusive but with potentially concrete consequences for the public is likely to raise concern about immigration far more than unobtrusive but abstract issues. The analysis, based on public opinion data and newspaper articles on the topic of immigration to the U.K., shows that press emphasis on two unobtrusive but concrete issues within the theme of immigration-the economy and education-appears to increase concern about immigration; emphasis on more abstract issues evokes little reaction from the British public.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Amsterdam (UvA), University of Glasgow

Journal

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Band

30

Seiten

173-193

Anzahl der Seiten

21

ISSN

0954-2892

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edw033

Publikationsdatum

2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508008 Medienanalyse

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sociology and Political Science

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/892f70c8-bab1-45d0-b998-43b9fd397933