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Encountering migration has deeply influenced how migrants are perceived, experienced, and the emotions they evoke. The purpose of this study is to investigate readers' attitudes and beliefs regarding migrants through an analysis of their comments to media texts about the migration issue on the Politika and Kurir websites. The choice of the analysis period, which spans two years, 2015 and 2017, was made with the aim of spotting any shifts in media users' beliefs and attitudes. Readers' comments were analyzed based on the following categories: topic, identification of migrants, attitude towards migrants, way of referring to migrants, aggregation, and collectivization. The research results indicate that readers perceive migrants as a threat (62.72% of the 2,850 comments), although a negative attitude towards them was identified in 32.28% of the content. The public agenda now primarily focuses on Serbia's reception and care for migrants and refugees as a reaction to the migration issue. The biggest threat is economic in nature, and the reaction to the impending danger was to instill a significant deal of racism, xenophobia, and rejection. Through the references they cite to define and characterize migrants, readers convey their antagonism toward them. This vast group's members are seen and felt as the "Others" (foreigners, newcomers, arrivals). They come from a different world and culture, and this perception is supported by readers' doubts about the reasons behind migration, which demonstrates their distrust and fear of newcomers.

Intensive migrations during the last years of the 20th century and in the beginning of the 21st century are an important part of modern societies which are becoming multicultural. While information, ideas and people cross countries' borders all the time, and term "nation" is becoming outdated in new communication universe, the foundations of identity are becoming weak, unstable and subject to change. In crisis, media reporting about groups which are not culturally close to the native population significantly influences the public opinion creating, since direct contacts with such groups are limited and rare. Besides, the question arises to what extent such reporting is subject to the ethical codes. In this paper, media reporting about recent European migrant and refugee crisis was analyzed. The paper is primarily focused on media representation of migrants and refugees which was analyzed through several aspects: frequency of texts about migrants and refugees, the analysis of genres, titles, visual presentation, respect of journalistic ethics as well as examination of rhetorical, stylistic and manipulative means that were used. All texts about migrant and refugee crisis published over a period of two weeks on three informative web-portals – "Blic", "Kurir" and "Politika" were analyzed. The first analyzed week was from June 1st to September 7th, 2015, while the second week was from March 1st to March 7th, 2017. The goal of this comparative analysis of media texts was to determine possible differences in the way migrants and refugees are portrayed in media texts. The main goal was to determine diferences between three informative portals in terms of emphasis certain aspects of migrant and refugee crisis as well as in terms of emphasis certain characteristics of this social group.

The media have always had great influence on the construction of attitudes and opinions of the public, thus it comes as no surprise that they constantly adjust to contemporary tides and the ways in which the public obtains information. Thanks to the popularity and possibilities offered by the Internet, the media were forced to converge towards online forms of reporting. Besides this, the Internet enabled the removal of state limits when it comes to informing, so the public can learn more easily about events from all over the world. In this way, mass-media communication gets new outlines while directing social tides on the global level. Although such a trend can be useful, it can also carry certain dangers. Therefore, the new media can become a platform for international conflicts and lead to possible interruption of good relations among states. Considering the fact that relations between Serbia and Croatia are characterised by a now concluded war, this paper examines the way in which the Serbian and the Croatian online media report on the relationship between the two states from the perspective of political relations, media presentations of each other, as well as how large the role of the modern media is in provoking new conflicts. Using a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the content, both the Serbian and the Croatian versions of the portal "24 hours" were analysed within the period from April 1 to April 30, 2017.

The media have always had great influence on the construction of attitudes and opinions of the public, thus it comes as no surprise that they constantly adjust to contemporary tides and the ways in which the public obtains information. Thanks to the popularity and possibilities offered by the Internet, the media were forced to converge towards online forms of reporting. Besides this, the Internet enabled the removal of state limits when it comes to informing, so the public can learn more easily about events from all over the world. In this way, mass-media communication gets new outlines while directing social tides on the global level. Although such a trend can be useful, it can also carry certain dangers. Therefore, the new media can become a platform for international conflicts and lead to possible interruption of good relations among states. Considering the fact that relations between Serbia and Croatia are characterised by a now concluded war, this paper examines the way in which the Serbian and the Croatian online media report on the relationship between the two states from the perspective of political relations, media presentations of each other, as well as how large the role of the modern media is in provoking new conflicts. Using a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the content, both the Serbian and the Croatian versions of the portal "24 hours" were analysed within the period from April 1 to April 30, 2017. ; Mediji su oduvek imali veliku moć u konstruisanju stavova i mišljenja publike, pa ne čudi što se stalno prilagođavaju savremenim tokovima i načinima na koje publika dolazi do informacija. Zahvaljujući popularnosti i mogućnostima koje internet pruža, mediji su bili prinuđeni da konvergiraju ka onlajn formama izveštavanja. Osim toga, internet je omogućio brisanje državnih granica u pogledu informisanja, pa publika lakše može doći do saznanja o događajima iz bilo kojeg dela sveta. Masmedijska komunikacija tako dobija nove obrise, usmeravajući društvene tokove na globalnom nivou. Iako ovakav trend ...