Sweden’s online nation branding in times of refugee movement: A multimodal analysis of “Portraits of migration”

Author:

Rucka Weronika1ORCID,De Cock Rozane1

Affiliation:

1. KU Leuven Institute for Media Studies Leuven Belgium

Abstract

Abstract Textual and visual analyses of nation-branding campaigns are rare but highly needed (Bolin and Ståhlberg, 2010; Hao, Paul, Trott, Guo, and Wu, 2019) as online media have become a popular tool for states to shape people’s perception (Volcic and Andrejevic, 2011). In Anholt’s much applied nation brand hexagon (2007), immigration and investment, society, governance, and culture and heritage are, along with tourism and export, the core aspects that build a country’s reputation. As the 2015 refugee peak situation resulted in a more restrictive approach of the Swedish government towards asylum applicants, the country’s brand was put under pressure. How could Sweden’s values related to openness be highlighted while policymakers chose a deterrent road? In this study, we bridge streams of research on nation branding, framing, and migration studies by presenting a multimodal analysis of the “Portraits of migration” campaign as a strategic response to the refugee situation.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Communication

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