ABSTRACT

This study explores the rhetoric, discourse, visual representation, and news narratives regarding asylum seekers (AS) in the European Union in Israeli media. Integrating cultural representation theory and foreign news proximity-distance approaches, this research focuses on differences in media coverage of AS in the EU between mainstream, community, and social media, and then suggests a model and theoretical implications. The sample included 340 Hebrew language news items from television, print and online newspapers, radio broadcasts, and social media posts from 2011 to 2019. A thematic analysis was conducted. Based on theory of representation, this study found that AS are presented as Others in two different ways based on media type. Community and social media seek to productively compare the Other (AS) to Israelis to encourage concern over Israeli identity and values. In contrast, mainstream media promote narratives that do not invite comparisons—either tacit or explicit—to Israel. Based on proximity-distance approaches, we found that mainstream media content is appropriated by social and community media for different rhetorical ends using a scale of proximity ranging from hostile to hospitable. Community and social media used mainly domestication rhetoric in contrast to mainstream media, which distance the issue, covering it as newsworthy.

摘要

本研究探讨了以色列媒体中关于欧盟寻求庇护者 (AS) 的修辞、话语、视觉表现和新闻叙述。本研究将文化表征理论和外国新闻接近-距离方法相结合，重点研究了欧盟AS在主流、社区和社交媒体之间的媒体报道差异，然后提出了模型和理论启示。样本包括 2011 年至 2019 年电视、印刷和在线报纸、广播和社交媒体帖子中的 340 条希伯来语新闻。进行了主题分析。基于表征理论，本研究发现，AS根据媒体类型以两种不同的方式呈现为“他者”。社区和社交媒体寻求有效地比较对以色列人的其他（AS），以鼓励对以色列身份和价值观的关注。相比之下，主流媒体宣传的叙述不会引起与以色列的比较——无论是默示的还是明确的——。基于接近-距离方法，我们发现主流媒体内容被社交和社区媒体挪用用于不同的修辞目的，使用从敌对到好客的接近程度。与主流媒体相比，社区和社交媒体主要使用归化言论，主流媒体将问题拉开，将其报道为具有新闻价值。