One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the
circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean …

The European refugee crisis received heightened attention at the beginning of September
2015, when images of the drowned child, Aylan Kurdi, surfaced across mainstream and …

Abstract The images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old who drowned in the Aegean Sea in
2015, and Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old covered in dust and blood waiting shell …

The new communicative affordances of online spaces have transformed the ways and
domains we build and negotiate meaning. At the same time, they have introduced diverse …

This article focuses on the reception of the image of Alan Kurdi by a group of young
volunteers in Oslo and Sheffield, and their understanding of the subsequent civic and …

This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their
role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created …

In social, economic and political terms, Turkey is playing a key role in the Syrian refugee
crisis. The number of refugees crossing its border is now in the millions, which makes Turkey …

This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an
unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist …

Despite an increased interest in the discourse representations of refugees in the media, little
attention has been paid so far to the circulation and uptake of such portrayals in social …

This article discusses whether it is possible to frame anti-refugee discourse on social media
as a form of populism by analysing the case study of the hashtag# …