Over the past thirty years, media representations of migration in Italy have remained largely characterized by stereotypes, distortions, and recurring frames, contributing to the portrayal of migration primarily as a social and public security issue. Against this backdrop, this thesis examines the representation of migration in local journalism in Padua, with the aim of identifying its main characteristics and interpreting them from a pedagogical perspective. The research is based on a qualitative analysis of articles published in two local newspapers, Il Gazzettino and Il Mattino di Padova, between January 2025 and May 2026. The data are examined through the combined use of content analysis and pedagogical reflection. Following a review of the literature on media representations of migration and the role of local journalism, the study adopts Gert Biesta's educational theory as its theoretical framework to explore the educational dimension of the media. If education is understood as a transformative process that enables individuals to encounter others and the world, journalistic narratives can also perform an educational function by contributing both to the construction of shared social imaginaries and to the reinforcement of stereotypical representations. Migration represents a particularly significant case study, as it is a phenomenon about which much of the public acquires knowledge primarily through the media and which continues to be framed mainly in terms of security, migrant arrivals, and humanitarian emergencies. The findings show that these dominant narrative frames tend to oversimplify the complexity of migration. The thesis therefore discusses the potential for developing alternative forms of storytelling capable of acknowledging the plurality of migrants' experiences and fostering a more critical, nuanced, and pedagogically meaningful understanding of migration.
Negli ultimi trent'anni la narrazione mediatica della migrazione in Italia è rimasta caratterizzata da stereotipi, distorsioni e frame ricorrenti che hanno contribuito a rappresentare il fenomeno migratorio prevalentemente come un problema sociale e di ordine pubblico. A partire da questo quadro, la presente tesi analizza la narrazione della migrazione nel giornalismo locale padovano, con l'obiettivo di comprenderne le caratteristiche e di interpretarle attraverso una prospettiva pedagogica. La ricerca si basa su un'analisi qualitativa degli articoli pubblicati da due giornali locali padovani, Il Gazzettino e Il Mattino di Padova, tra gennaio 2025 e maggio 2026, interpretati attraverso gli strumenti della content analysis e della riflessione pedagogica. Dopo una ricostruzione della letteratura sulla rappresentazione mediatica della migrazione e sul ruolo del giornalismo locale, la ricerca assume il pensiero di Gert Biesta come quadro teorico per riflettere sulla dimensione educativa dei media. Se l'educazione è un processo trasformativo che apre il soggetto all'incontro con l'altro e con il mondo, anche le narrazioni giornalistiche possono esercitare una funzione educativa, contribuendo sia alla costruzione di immaginari condivisi sia al consolidamento di rappresentazioni stereotipate. La migrazione rappresenta un caso particolarmente significativo, poiché è un fenomeno rispetto al quale gran parte della popolazione costruisce le proprie conoscenze prevalentemente attraverso i media e che continua a essere raccontato principalmente attraverso i frame della sicurezza, degli sbarchi e dell'emergenza umanitaria. L'analisi evidenzia come tali cornici narrative tendano a semplificare la complessità del fenomeno migratorio e discute la possibilità di sviluppare modalità di narrazione alternative, capaci di valorizzarne la pluralità delle esperienze e di promuovere una lettura più critica, complessa e pedagogicamente significativa del fenomeno.
Narrare la migrazione. Il giornalismo locale tra rappresentazioni mediatiche e prospettive pedagogiche
MORPURGO, BENEDETTA
2025/2026
Abstract
Over the past thirty years, media representations of migration in Italy have remained largely characterized by stereotypes, distortions, and recurring frames, contributing to the portrayal of migration primarily as a social and public security issue. Against this backdrop, this thesis examines the representation of migration in local journalism in Padua, with the aim of identifying its main characteristics and interpreting them from a pedagogical perspective. The research is based on a qualitative analysis of articles published in two local newspapers, Il Gazzettino and Il Mattino di Padova, between January 2025 and May 2026. The data are examined through the combined use of content analysis and pedagogical reflection. Following a review of the literature on media representations of migration and the role of local journalism, the study adopts Gert Biesta's educational theory as its theoretical framework to explore the educational dimension of the media. If education is understood as a transformative process that enables individuals to encounter others and the world, journalistic narratives can also perform an educational function by contributing both to the construction of shared social imaginaries and to the reinforcement of stereotypical representations. Migration represents a particularly significant case study, as it is a phenomenon about which much of the public acquires knowledge primarily through the media and which continues to be framed mainly in terms of security, migrant arrivals, and humanitarian emergencies. The findings show that these dominant narrative frames tend to oversimplify the complexity of migration. The thesis therefore discusses the potential for developing alternative forms of storytelling capable of acknowledging the plurality of migrants' experiences and fostering a more critical, nuanced, and pedagogically meaningful understanding of migration.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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