Narratives of the Refugee Crisis: A Comparative Study of Mainstream-Media and Twitter

The European refugee crisis received heightened attention at the beginning of September 2015, when images of the drowned child, Aylan Kurdi, surfaced across mainstream and social media. While the flows of displaced persons, especially from the Middle East into Europe, had been ongoing until that dat...

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Main Authors: Adina Nerghes, Ju-Sung Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2019-06-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1983