Paper uses a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper to demonstrate a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration, and argues that this is due to the inclusion of participatory journalism in newspaper editorial pages.
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Paper uses a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper to demonstrate a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration, and argues that this is due to the inclusion of participatory journalism in newspaper editorial pages.
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Abstract: Comparative cultural sociologists argue that Americans are likely to utilize “economic boundaries” and a market logic to justify their social judgments. In this study, I discuss a recent trend that appears to challenge these assertions: a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration. I document this trend with a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper. I hypothesize that changes in anti-immigration public discourse are due to changes in the production of newspaper editorial pages, specifically the inclusion of participatory journalism as a response to the rise of the Internet. Results of the content analysis support our hypotheses, and suggest new ways of theorizing how social boundaries are produced through the media and transformed due to technological and political shifts.
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