ICA PRECONFERENCE Refugees, Religious Threats, and Political Radicalization: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Hilton Prague Hilton Prague, M - Tyrolka Wednesday 23 MAY 2018 9:30 - 17:00

co-sponsored by the Political Communication Division of ICA, the Department of Communication at the U of Vienna and its following research labs:

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9:30 - 9:45 Welcome

9:45 - 11:00 Panel 1 The Refugee Crisis in the Media Panel Chair Hajo Boomgaarden, U of Vienna

The Scandianvian immigration debate 1970-2016. Results from a quantitative content analysis Jostein Gripsrud, Jan Fredrik Hovden, and Hilmar Mjelde (University of Bergen)

The role of religion in Romanian news of the refugee crisis. A clusters-based frame analysis Delia Balaban, Radu Meza, and Orsolya Vincze (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

The local perspective – How regional newspapers frame refugees Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna) and Tobias Widmann (European University Institute)

Contesting European solidarity: Patterns of justifications in media claims-making during the refugee crisis Verena K. Brändle (University of Copenhagen), Olga Eisele (), and Hans-Jörg Trenz (University of Copenhagen/University of Oslo)

Regional media reporting and xenophobic events in the course of the refugee crisis. Florian Bader () and Andreas Blätte (University of Duisburg-Essen)

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:30 Panel 2 The Refugee Crisis in the Media II Panel Chair Jörg Matthes, U of Vienna

UK media framing of the Syrian refugee crisis: Journalists’ perspectives Ammina Kothari (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Discursive coalitions in the refugee crisis: An analysis of journalistic commentaries and parties’ social media feeds in and Norway Peter Maurer and Signe Ringdal Bergan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Looking over the canal. Comparing the objectivity of media coverage on the so-called refugee crisis in Germany and the UK Jörg Haßler, Pablo Jost, Simon Kruschinski, and Marcus Maurer ( University )

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 15:15 Panel 3 Exploring the Role of Social Media Panel Chair Jakob M. Eberl, U of Vienna

Particularly vulnerable? Migrants’ contact with and reactions towards jihadist online propaganda Annika Hamachers and Stefan Jarolimek (German Police University)

Cultivating the grounds of radicalization – Mainstreaming radical right agendas in satirical pages on social media Christian Schwarzenegger and Anna Wagner ()

Constituting the national ‘self’: Rhetorical constructions of collective identities in social media discussions about the refugee crisis in Scandinavia Ida Andersen (University of Bergen)

Government information campaigns targeting migrants. The emerging role of social media Audun Beyer, Jan-Paul Brekke, and Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)

How to start a spiral of silence: Asymmetric mobilization of opinion camps on facebook Stefan Geiss (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Pascal Jürgens (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Melanie Magin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and Birgit Stark (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:00 Panel 4 Refugees, Immigrants, and Public Opinion Panel Chair Loes Aaldering, U of Vienna

The Influence of Media Use on Attitudes Towards Immigration in the European Union. A Comparative Analysis in Seven Countries’ Hajo Boomgarden (University of Vienna), Jakob-Moritz Eberl (University of Vienna), Tobias Heidenreich (University of Vienna), Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna), Christine Meltzer (University of Mainz), Christian Schemer (University of Mainz), Jesper Strömbäck (University of Gothenburg), and Nora Theorin (University of Gothenburg)

Opinion polarization in the debate about an "upper limit" for refugees: Motivated reasoning in response to likeminded and cross-cutting news Jörg Matthes, Desirée Schmuck, and Marlis Stubenvoll (University of Vienna)

Who Breaks the Silence? Linking Perception of German Media Coverage on Refugees to Willingness to Speak Out Christina Peter (University of Vienna) and Thomas Zerback (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich)

Responses to the refugee crisis in citizens' associations with asylum seekers Lise Lund Bjanesy (University of Bergen)

The effects of dehumanizing images on the perception of refugees Till Hafermann, Christine E. Meltzer and Christian Schemer (University of Mainz)

17:00 Farewell