Media and Othering: How Media Discourse on Migrants Reflects and Affects Society´s Tolerance
Media and Othering: How Media Discourse on Migrants Reflects and Affects Society´s Tolerance

Summary/Abstract: The ability of media to create powerful images, which seep into the logical thinking and unconscious mind of the audience, is very important and delicate, especially when linked to questions regarding the attitude towards the Other and the perception of Otherness. This article deals with a problem which has not been sufficiently addressed by researchers so far – how the creation and representation of the Other-migrant (especially illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers) affects society’s attitudes and tolerance towards Otherness. Thus, two examples are also considered – the case of one highly contested cover page of a French magazine and the case of severe Othering in Bulgarian media discourse towards Syrian asylum seekers and refugees.

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