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AbstractAs a contentious, multidimensional issue, migration attracts significant media attention in affluent societies. While analysts have assessed coverage in traditional outlets, less is known about social media – digital platforms that facilitate the creation and sharing of content online. Working with a unique dataset of tweets from the 2019 Canadian federal election, this study analyses migration's representation within visible digital spaces. Employing content analytic methods, it offers new insight into the patterns of participation, claims‐making and engagement associated with the topic's online depiction. Alongside documenting significant lay involvement and creativity, it reveals communications were slightly negative and, reflecting the contemporary political climate, significantly more likely to feature identity‐based issues than economic and redistributive concerns. Messages from professional broadcasters, as well as, those featuring negative sentiments and referencing cultural matters generated greater engagement. The implications of these results and recommendations for future research are considered.

Contra Jackson, I am sceptical of splitting the category of phronesis into aesthetic and normative knowledge, for it invites a Kantian understanding of aesthetics as an exercise in detachment. I see scientific disciplines as genres held together by mutual disciplining, which means that they share a certain style. It is hard for me to see how systematic knowledge may emerge without there being some kind of generalisable intent in play. The scholarly ethos focuses on exactly this element of knowledge production. Sociology and ethics conspire to maintain science's monopoly on systematic knowledge production.