Rise of racist and populist discourse towards the Roma during Brexit in The Sun and The Daily Mail

The study “Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum” by Petre Breazu and Aidan McGarry from Loughborough University used multimodal critical discourse analysis to investigate racist tropes about the Roma during Brexit in two British newspapers: The Sun and The Daily Mail. Racism towards the Roma is also … Continued

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Published: 17 Feb 2023

Brexit-related othering was similar in broadsheets and tabloids

The study “Converging media-based othering in tabloids and broadsheets” by  Stefanie Walter from University of Munich and Zoltán Fazekas from Copenhagen Business School used word embeddings to analyze how different groups of citizens in Brexit-related news coverage are othered. The research on othering in media has looked at how the ingroup is portrayed or how … Continued

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Published: 7 Sep 2022