Vox Pops, Political Divisions and Brexit

我的项目将促进对媒体——特别是政治新闻中的“大众访谈”片段——如何在其报道中代表政治分歧的理解。媒体是否准确描绘了英国脱欧问题上的分歧，还是他们对脱欧和留欧选民的刻板印象？虽然大量文献分析了在英国公投决定离开欧盟后的几年里，态度、身份和投票方面的分歧变得明显（例如Hobolt, 2016; Jennings & Stoker 2018），但很少有研究考虑媒体如何向受众呈现这些新的政治分歧。我的项目将首先探索英国脱欧在选民中造成的分歧——最明显的是在2017年和2019年举行的提前大选中的投票行为，以及更普遍的公众态度。两场选举都表明，选民在英国退欧问题上出现了新的政治分歧。该项目的第二部分将考虑广播媒体如何向观众呈现新的政治分歧——态度和投票行为。它将考虑在有关英国脱欧的政治新闻中接受采访的人的类型——他们的年龄、性别、种族和他们在英国的地方（特别是他们是来自脱欧还是留欧地区）——以及记者如何利用他们的贡献。因此，该项目将有助于了解媒体是否准确地描绘了英国在脱欧问题上的政治分歧程度。

My project will advance understanding of how media - specifically 'vox pop' interview segments inpolitical news - represent political divisions in their coverage. Do media give an accurate picture ofdivisions over Brexit or do they present stereotypes of Leave and Remain voters? Whilst a substantialliterature analyses the divisions in attitudes, identities and voting that have become apparent in theyears following the UK's referendum vote to leave the EU (e.g. Hobolt, 2016; Jennings & Stoker 2018),few studies consider how the media present these new political divides to their audience. My project willfirstly explore the divides created by Brexit within the electorate - most notably in voting behaviour inthe snap general elections held in 2017 and 2019, but also in public attitudes more generally. Bothelections revealed the emergence of new political divides in the electorate over Brexit. The second partof the project will consider how broadcast media present the emergence of new political divides - inattitudes and voting behaviour to their audience. It will consider the sorts of people who are interviewedin political news items about Brexit - their age, gender, ethnicity and where they are from in the country(in particular whether they are from Leave or Remain-voting areas) - and how their contributions areused by journalists. The project will, therefore, provide insights into whether media portray accuratelythe extent of Britain's political divides over Brexit.