Overview
- Presents the first major European project examining the media and social representations of different otherness in the context of religion, migration, or sexual orientation
- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the relation between cultural dynamics, socio-institutional phenomena and policy
- Combines a diachronic and synchronic description of complex representations of otherness
Part of the book series: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action (CPMSUSA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Identity-Otherness Dynamics
- Cultural Dynamics in European Societies
- European Media Representations of Immigrants
- European Media Representations of Islam
- European Media Representations of LGBT
- Social Representations Theory
- Social Representations of Immigrations in Europe
- Refugee Crisis in Europe
- Muslim Communities in Europe
- Social Representations of LGBT People in Europe
- media research
About this book
This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri holds a BSc in Psychology of Communication from the University of Siena, an MSc in Social Research Methods (Statistics) from the Methodology Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in Social Psychology from the LSE. He is Associate Professor of Research Methodology and Cognitive Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento. He was Senior Lecturer at University of Leicester. He has been Lecturer at University of East Anglia and a scientific fellow at the European Commission JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). Before joining the IPTS, he has been a research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris. He has published in scientific journals such as Nature, PLOS One, Computers in Human Behavior, Public Understanding of Science, Big Data & Society and others. My current research agenda and my research-led teaching focus on the following areas: 1) The study of public opinion dynamics and social representations using a computational social science framework; 2) The development of research methodologies of a computational nature to social science problems 3) the intersection between sociology and behavioural sciences in the form of cognitive sociology.
Sergio Salvatore: Sergio Salvatore: Professor of Dynamic Psychology at La Sapienza Università di Roma. His scientific interests regard the psychodynamic and semiotic theorization of mental phenomena and the methodology of analysis of psychological processes as field dependent dynamics. He also takes an interest in the theory and analysis of psychological intervention in clinical, scholastic, organizational and social fields. On these issues he has designed and managed various scientific projects and published more than two hundred works. Associate editor of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science; Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome; RPC Rivista Psicologia Clinical-Review of Clinical Psychology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and Social Representations of Otherness
Book Subtitle: Psycho-Social-Cultural Implications
Editors: Terri Mannarini, Giuseppe A. Veltri, Sergio Salvatore
Series Title: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36099-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36098-6Published: 04 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36101-3Published: 04 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36099-3Published: 03 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7306
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 148
Topics: Media Research, Psychosocial Studies, Public Policy, Communication Studies, Migration