A Critical Discourse Analysis how Facebook Users are influenced by Media Articles on Refugees and Refugee Law during the German Refugee Crisis in October 2015

University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

Author: Annabell Curci-wallis; [2016]

Keywords: refugee; refugees; refugee law; critical discourse analysis; German Refugee Crisis 2015; Germany; Facebook; Facebook users; perceived social realities; Jürgen Habermas; Theory of Communicative Action; public sphere; language and identity; Structural Oppositions; Quoting verbs; Iconography; media articles; discourse; EU; European migration crisis; Social Sciences;

Abstract: This thesis is a contribution to the analysis of the news media’s influence on Facebook users, guided by the use of Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA). The aim of this thesis is to analyze how two news media articles can influence Facebook users perceptions on refugees and refugee law. This analysis tries to gain further knowledge on the dominance effect the media has on users of social media networks. The two articles that were analyzed were published in the German media and shared on Facebook, during the German refugee crisis, in October 2015. The articles were chosen by searching on Germany’s Facebook platform using the hashtag #Flüchtlinge (refugees) and #Deutschland (Germany).

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