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Image of International Migration in Russian Online Mass Media

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Our objective is to assess the formation of public opinion on the topic of migration in Russian electronic media. This study is suggested as a reflection motivated, on one hand, by the common practice of the intensive Internet use in everyday life, and, on the other hand, by active migration processes in Russia. For this purpose, within the framework of the project “Social Risks of International Youth Migration in Contemporary Russia”, we carried out a content analysis of articles published in popular Internet resources which contained the lexical category “migrant” and its derivatives. By comparing frequencies of mentioning of certain keywords in selected publications, we have tried to characterize the presentation in Internet media of topics related to the image of migrants and migration as a phenomenon, to the main measures of social policy, and to the activities of migrants and their problems. In addition to the analysis of the broadcasted content on migration, we also studied the opinion of Russians on that content and its presentation in media. As a result, a number of trends have been revealed in presentation of international migration processes by electronic mass media and the formation of public opinion on this issue.

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Notes

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    Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: Statistical information on the migration situation in the Russian Federation in 2016 with distribution over regions, https://мвд.рф/Deljatelnost/statistics/migracionnaya/item/9359228/, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: Separate indicators of the migration situation in the Russian Federation in January–December 2017 with distributions over regions, https://мвд.рф/Deljatelnost/statistics/migracionnaya/item/12162171/, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    Federal State Statistics Service: Population of Russia and its migration in 2016, http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b17_107/Main.htm, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    Federal State Statistics Service: Number and migration of the population of the Russian Federation in 2012–2013 http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b14_107/Main.htm, in 2014: http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b15_107/Main.htm, in 2015: http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b15_107/Main.htm, in 2016: http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b17_107/Main.htm, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    The concept of the demographic policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025 (approved by Presidential Decree No. 1311 of 9 October 2007). Demoscope Weekly, http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/knigi/koncepciya/koncepciya25.html, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    Internet in Russia: the dynamics of penetration. Summer 2017. Public opinion fund, http://fom.ru/SMI-i-internet/13783, last accessed 2018/05/20.

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    Life on the Internet and without it. Russian Public Opinion Research Center, https://infographics.wciom.ru/theme-archive/society/mass-media/internet/article/zhizn-v-internete-i-bez-nego.html, last accessed 2018/05/20 (in Russian).

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This publication was supported by Russian Science Foundation, Project No 16-18-10092 “Social risks of the international youth migration in contemporary Russia”.

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Romanenko, V. (2018). Image of International Migration in Russian Online Mass Media. In: Bodrunova, S. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11193. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01437-7_6

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