Seeing Migration Narratives: Enhancing Decision Making Through Visualisation of Policy Debates for Civil Society and the Media

了解移民叙事：通过民间社会和媒体政策辩论的可视化增强决策制定

基本信息

批准号：
EP/X028909/1
负责人：
Scott Hale
金额：
$ 77.65万
依托单位：
University of Oxford
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX028909%2F1
关键词：
Seeing Migration Narratives Enhancing Decision

项目摘要

Migration and refugee issues are among the most complex and polarising policy challenges in the UK and globally. Media narratives on migration are perceived to have a significant impact on policy decisions and public attitudes toward migration. However the enormous number of media stories about migration, and the immense complexity of their diffusion around digital platforms make it impossible, using existing tools, to track and understand the relationship between different narratives, actors and sources in the debate. This creates space for the emergence of one-sided and misleading public debates, which can be exploited to generate discord and fear and lead to policy making that serves neither the national interest nor the interests of migrant and refugee communities.This project will develop and apply novel techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, statistics, and data visualisation to: reveal the content and nature of digital discourse on migration; track the diffusion of different stories and concepts; demonstrate the reach of different voices in the debate. This will provide clear evidence of the sources of power and influence within the debate, and allow civil society actors, policy makers and journalists dealing with the issue to make informed decisions on what action may be taken to hold this power to account.

移民和难民问题是英国乃至全球最复杂和两极分化的政策挑战之一。人们认为媒体关于移民的叙述对政策决策和公众对移民的态度有重大影响。然而，关于移民的大量媒体报道，以及它们在数字平台上传播的巨大复杂性，使得使用现有工具不可能跟踪和理解辩论中不同叙述、参与者和来源之间的关系。这为出现片面和误导性的公共辩论创造了空间，这些辩论可被用来制造不和和恐惧，并导致政策制定既不符合国家利益，也不符合移民和难民社区的利益。该项目将制定和应用自然语言处理、机器学习、统计和数据可视化等新技术：揭示有关移民的数字话语的内容和本质；追踪不同故事和概念的传播；展示辩论中不同声音的影响力。这将为辩论中的权力和影响力来源提供清晰的证据，并使处理该问题的民间社会行动者、政策制定者和记者能够就可以采取哪些行动来追究这种权力的责任做出明智的决定。