Russia Beyond the Italian Headlines. Political Polarization in News Coverage of Russia in the Italian Media

      Аннотация: Today Russia plays an important role in the geopolitics and a research on the news coverage of Russia was needed to understand whether Italian politics influence international issues. This work continues the study of media political parallelism on Italian media but also researches on the representation of Russia that emerges in the most popular and important Italian newspapers. It has been considered the concept of political parallelism and in particular in the framework of the Italian journalism. The methods used for this study is a quantitative content analysis of 196 newspapers articles published by four journalists: 63 articles written by Fabrizio Dragosei, Il Corriere della Sera, 52 articles written by Anna Zafesova, La Stampa, 50 articles written by Nicola Lombardozzi, La Repubblica and 31 articles written by Antonella Scott, Il Sole 24 Ore, all published between November 2013 – April 2014 and between November 2016 – February 2017. Univariate analysis has been conducted to calculate the frequencies, and the coefficients Spearman’s Rho and Cramer’s V have been computed to examine the relationships between the variables.

Ключевые слова: Political Polarization, Russia, Italy, content analysis, News Coverage