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ABSTRACT
This contribution is part of a broader research programme – inspired by the ‘modelling’ paradigmatic approach to Social Representations Theory – articulated in ‘field’ and ‘media’ studies. The latter are aimed at detecting social representations of (im)migrants in relation to social inclusion/exclusion, identity affiliations and ideological positions in the ‘multivoiced’ and ‘multiagent’ 10.074 sources from: (a) scientific discourse, (b )political-institutional discourse, (c) media discourse in newspapers and broadcast, (d) social discourse ‘by’ and ‘for’ lay people via four social media. This contribution analyzes 908 articles about ‘(im)migration’ published in 2017–2019 in four Italian online newspapers of different political orientations. The results here presented illustrate the five Clusters emerged by Descending Hierarchical Classification by IRaMuTeQ. Crossresults concerning the transversal analysis of other sources from different media are also briefly presented in the conclusions, highlighting the consistency of the polarized discourse on (im)migration, depending on the ideological political positioning of the multi-voiced and multi-agent social actors.
Acknowledgement
This article has been developed within interdisciplinary research activities focused on the theme of migratory flows and inclusive practices in Europe and Italy at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, selected in 2017 as department of excellence by the M.I.U.R. (Italian Ministry of University and Research).
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Author's Contributions
– Annamaria Silvana de Rosa: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Editing
– Elena Bocci: Methodology, Data Analysis, Writing
– Sara Proietti: Data Analysis, Editing.
Supplemental online material
Excerpts (in original Italian language and in English translation) – selected from 980 articles published in the four online Italian Newspapers Libero, Il Mattino, La Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano (2017-2018-2019) chosen as source of the empirical study.
The data used in this study are available from the corresponding author upon request deemed reasonable by the authors.
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1 From 2018 onwards, Salvini joined the old Lega Nord with a new party, the Lega per Salvini Premier (LPS), founded on 14 December 2017, definitively renouncing the theme of independence in the Po Valley and significantly the word ‘North’ in the Party logo. The federal congress of the Northern League held on 21 December 2019 effectively sanctioned the handover between the two parties: the LSP concluded its membership campaign in August 2020, accepting new militants also from the northern regions, while the old militants of the Northern League would have obtained membership in both parties. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indipendentismo_padano
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_per_Salvini_Premier; https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Salvini
However, on the site https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governo_Conte_I it is mentioned as a Party as a coalition party with the 5 Stars explicitly Lega per Salvini Premier LPS and not Lega Nord.
On the official website of the Government. The roles of vice-premieres and various ministers are mentioned, but not parties.
In order to avoid extreme redundancies, since its first full name as above, ‘Lega per Salvini Premier', we will refer to it using the name Lega followed by the acronym Lega (LPS) of the current party.
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Annamaria Silvana de Rosa
Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, PhD, Former Full Professor of Social Representations and Communication at Sapienza University of Rome (IT); Founder and Director of the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication (http://www.europhd.eu) and of the EU-approved So.Re.Com. THEmatic NETwork of excellence (http://www.europhd.net/sorecomthenet-summary). Leader of 73 hypercompetitive international projects (http://www.europhd.net/accreditation-four-institutional-scenarios). Invited as Visiting Professor and awarded of Doctorate Honoris, Emeritus and Adjoint Professor by many Universities worldwide and of Fulbright Schuman Grant by the Commission for Educational Exchange between the USA, Belgium and Luxembourg at University of California, Irvine, USA. Author of more than 750 scientific contributions inspired by her “modeling” approach to Social Representations based on integrative multi-theoretical and pluri-methodological research designs in various thematic areas: multi-dimensional identity; place-identity and European historical capitals; tourism, web-marketing and new media; advertising; stock market; collective traumatic events, social memory and emotions; family relationships; madness; social movements and social media; (im)migrants, Covid-19 and othering process. Her books include Social Representations in the Social Arena (Routledge, 2013). Other publications concern the internationalization of doctoral education and innovative Digital Libraries, as creator of the SoReCom'A.S.deRosa'@-library, the multi-purpose web-platform, integrating scientific documentation and research tools aimed at the meta-theoretical analysis of the whole scientific production in the supra-disciplinary field of Social Representations and Communication.
Elena Bocci
Elena Bocci, holder since 2006 of the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication; since 2008 confirmed researcher in Social Psychology (M-PSI/05) at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy); co-teacher of Social Psychoology of Communication in the a.y. 2021-2022 and in previous academic years (2017-2020) of Psychology and Sociology of Organizational Processes also collaborating to the Laboratory of New Media and webMarketing integrated in the course of Social Representations and Communication and to the research activities at the European/International Joint PhD in S.R. & C. Research Centre and Multimedia Lab, directed by prof. A.S. de Rosa. Her research interests and publications, inspired by the Social Representation theory, concern various objects of the study in the thematic fields of psychology of tourism, intergenerational dynamics, social inclusion/exclusion. Currently she collaborates, among others, to the bi-national project "Social representations of immigrants from multi- voice and multi-agent institutional-policies-driven discourses and their echoes in the media: a comparative analysis between Canada and Italy”, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) jointly submitted and co-directed by Annamaria de Rosa and Lilian Negura. e-mail: [email protected]
Sara Proietti
Sara Proietti, graduated in Psychology of Communication and Marketing at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2021. She is currently collaborating to the international research project entitled "Social representations of immigrants from multi- voice and multi-agent institutional-policies-driven discourses and their echoes in the media: a comparative analysis between Canada and Italy”, presented in 2020 by prof. Annamaria de Rosa, as co-applicant and adjoint professor of the University of Ottawa (CA) together with prof. Lilian Negura (u-Ottawa, CA). This project (n° 430-2020-00279) - approved and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the time period 1st June 2020- 31 May 2023 – involves a bi-national research team operating in Italy and Canada including senior and junior researchers, PhD and Master Degree holders, who collaborate under the joint direction of two project leaders. e-mail: [email protected]