| Abstract [eng] |
In this master degree paper we discuss about foreigners portrait in Lithuanian mass media (newspapers). The research of the mass media discourse of foreigners was based on 82 articles about people from other countries (not Lithuanians), which were found in period 2004, 2005 January, and were taken from two daily newspapers – two big regional newspapers – „Klaipėda“ and „Šiaulių kraštas“. In this research combined approaches of hermeneutic, qualitative and quantitative content analysis, based on procedures of open and axel coding of grounded theory was used. In two Lithuanian periodic newspapers (2004, 2005 January) was published 1 article or more than 1 article about foreigners in a day, it means that foreigners theme in Lithuanian mass media is steady. Also was found, that regional daily newspaper of Šiauliai gives attention to foreigners' theme third more than regional daily newspaper of Klaipėda. Tendency of articles number increasing in period 2004, 2005 January was noticed. Size of the biggest part of articles was 0,5-1 pages, most of articles was illustrating article (had 1 or more photos), and 22 articles were on the first newspapers' page. The biggest part of articles headings and subheadings talk about foreigners' places to live (from country till home spread), their characters, how do they look like, their connections in families, connections between man and woman, wedding ceremonies. Foreigners in two Lithuanian daily newspapers mostly are presented in negative point of view too. Some authors or articles talk about foreigners, as they are criminals, but this category is lesser than some big categories. Research identified the ambivalence and multidimensionality of foreigners in Lithuanian mass media (daily newspapers): in one hand, person from other country is represented as a subject, who has other character, looks unusual, has some unknown connections with other persons, but on the other hand, he is an object, who can offend. |
