Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.46640/imr.12.23.7
Stereotypical depiction of Roma Population in the Media
Lidija Dujić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1692-2806
; University North, Koprivnica, Croatia
Dora Mesić
Abstract
By analyzing the media content of the Vecernji.hr portal, the paper explores the extent to which the reporting on persons belonging to ethnic minorities is based on prejudice and stereotypes. Comparatively analyzed are 5 articles about the disappearance of the girl Barbara Vidović, published in August 2017, and 190 readers’ comments on those articles; and 3 articles about the disappearance of the girl Marija Marinela Grgić in the same month of the same year, and 141 readers’ comments on those articles. The analysis shows that two events of almost the same character are reported differently if the events pertains to members of a minority social group. With such approach to the topic they report on, the media become persecutors of minorities instead of the promoters of their rights and of the better coexistence of minorities with the majority population.
Keywords
media coverage; ethnic minorities; prejudice; stereotypical representation of Roma; Vecernji.hr
Hrčak ID:
308281
URI
Publication date:
25.9.2023.
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