We will have João Miguel Carvalho and Mariana Carmo Duarte present the paper.

Follow the Media? The Effect of Newspaper Articles on Public Concern with Immigration 

Abstract:

We examine to what extent media coverage affects the public concern with immigration. Data come from an extensive claims-making analysis of newspapers in seven Western European countries between 2002 and 2009, and the Eurobarometer. The continuous sample of news coverage is aggregated into a biannual panel, and we relate these data to citizens’ perception of the most important problem half a year later (lagged). We show that immigration is considered more important when there is more coverage of immigration in the newspapers. The media is an exogenous actor that can hold direct influence over public concern with immigration, which is observed across the general electorate independent of political predispositions. We suggest that informational theories seem more valuable to understand the fluctuations on public concern with immigration than predispositional theories. In terms of interparty competition, intense media coverage of immigration will most likely benefit the electoral support for far-right parties

NOVO LINK:   https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/2078036623