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Peter Stockinger:
Multiple Video Staging of the Figure of Migrant on the You Tube Platform
(Paris, INALCO 2017)
In this working paper we will present a research methodology for describing and comparing corpus of video productions diffused and shared on social media platforms (here: You Tube).
Following experts, there are more than 65 million of refugees in the world. Europe and more particularly the European Union faces a challenge of between 2 to 3 million of refugees, coming mainly from Middle East, North, West and East Africa and the West Balkan lands (Kosovo, Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina, …). The main reasons are war, political, religious and other persecutions and discriminations, poverty and lack of jobs and youth bulge. A common well-known expression for designating this complex is that of the “European migrant crisis”.
This expression means, approximatively, the increased influx of people from Muslim-majority countries trying to join the EU since 2014 across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through SoutheastEurope. The most concerned countries of the EU are Greece and Italy as well as Hungary, Austria and Slovenia mainly in the role of transit countries and Germany, France and the UK as the most popular destination countries. The European migrant crisis has had unsurprisingly a tremendous echo in the traditional news media as well as in the digital social media sphere.
Some data taken from the You Tube platform illustrates this enormous echo…
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