Demarcation and Refugee Hate: Framing of Refugees in News and its Impact on Hate Speech in Public Comments

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This study analyses the interplay between media framing and hate speech in South Korean refugee-related news. As news about refugees within Korea has recently emerged in the Korean media, analyzing how news framing influences public discourse would serve as the starting point for understanding the media's role in shaping public opinions towards refugees. Using 3965 news articles and 314,769 comments on Afghan and Yemeni refugees, we employed the analysis of topic model network to identify frames. Deep neural networks detected hate comments, and Poisson regression assessed the impact of framing and its interaction with news scope on hate speech. For Afghan refugees, international news with a victim frame reduced hate comment, whereas domestically it increased them. Intruder framing generally decreased hate comments, particularly in domestic news. Similarly, for Yemeni refugees, international victim-framed news received fewer hate comments, while domestic news with the same frame increased hate comments. The intruder frame, which had no effect on domestic news, significantly increased hateful comments on international news. These results show how nuances of framing, along with news scope, affect the dynamics of hate speech in South Korea when refugees are portrayed as a domestic or as an international issue.

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