Project information
Doctoral student
Victoria Yantseva
Supervisor
Giangiacomo Bravo
Financier
Linnaeus University
Timetable
2019–2022
Subject
Sociology (Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences)
Thesis
Frames of threat and solidarity: Dynamics of media discourse on immigration in Sweden
More about the project
The project aims to make a systematic analysis of media discourse about migration in Sweden in the last decade. To meet this goal, the project uses large-scale textual data collected from a variety of media resources, such as mainstream newspapers, social media (Twitter and Facebook), and online forums.
On the one hand, the project explores how the internal architecture of modern media contributes to the formulation of public debate about migration. On the other hand, the project focuses on an external event represented by the refugee crisis and how it intervened with the overall discourse dynamics in the Swedish media. Ultimately, the project aims to understand how these internal and external factors affect the framing and construction of the immigration agenda in Sweden.
The methodological framework of the project includes a variety of text analytic methods, such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, word embeddings and machine learning, which helps to gain insight into the content and sentiments of the documents published in the media resources. Text analytic methods are further complemented with social network analysis and the study of communication patterns among social media users.
The project is part of the research in Computational Social Sciences (CSS) and in Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA).
