Migration in the Discoursive Field of Virtual Social Networks: Analysis of the Publications Content of Residents of the Rostov Region
Research Article
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Bineeva N.K. Migration in the Discoursive Field of Virtual Social Networks: Analysis of the Publications Content of Residents of the Rostov Region. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2020. Vol. 9. No. 5. P. 174-187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.14 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article presents the results of a pilot study using the method of content analysis of the content of social network users’ messages in groups with a pronounced regional affiliation. The empirical base was obtained using the media monitoring system “Medialogia”.
43 groups of communication in social networks (VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram) were selected as objects of analysis; the depth of analysis was 3 months. The key events that determined the information agenda of social networks were messages in the public space about the policy of migrant orientation in Russian society, the creation of a tent camp for migrants awaiting the departure of a train to Uzbekistan in September 2020, local crime incidents involving representatives of different nationalities. The analysis allowed us to identify the qualitative characteristics of the content of virtual social networks with a pronounced regional affiliation, as well as to identify the semantic loci of perception of migrants and migration processes.
The article concludes that the attitude towards migrants is contradictory, with a predominance of negative perception of representatives of this social group.
The structure of opinions is not based on direct (local – migrant), and generalized (local − authority / employer / police / migrant) communication system, mediated by the involvement and activity of institutional structures. Semantic loci of perception of migrants and migration processes by residents of the Rostov region are formed around such social facts as “state”, “power”, “politics”, “economic institutions”, “subjects of economic activity”, “natural population decline”, “crime”, “pension reform”, “pandemic”, “historical memory”.
Keywords:
migration, virtual social networks, Rostov region, migration policy, groups of communication
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Article
Received: 23.09.2020
Accepted: 09.12.2020
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Bineeva, N. K. (2020). Migration in the Discoursive Field of Virtual Social Networks: Analysis of the Publications Content of Residents of the Rostov Region. Humanities of the South of Russia, 9(5), 174-187. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2020.5.14
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SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ETHNICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA
