Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans

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Contributing to Theory and Knowledge in Quantitative Communication Science (2012, background): “It is worth noting how Dixon (2008) also made an argument for the theoretical importance of his findings by noting that national news viewers might otherwise be presumed to be relatively well-informed and less likely to hold stereotypic beliefs, and then provided a sophisticated theoretical causal…”
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign (2012, background): “Survey Evidence of Media Effects on Racial Attitudes To date, only a few studies have investigated the effect of media use on racial perceptions and attitudes in the field (Armstrong et al., 1992; Busselle & Crandall, 2002; Dixon, 2008a, 2008b; Vergeer et al., 2000).”
Mediated Intergroup Contact: Concept Explication, Synthesis, and Application (2012, background): “A more recent study struck a similar note by reporting that repeated exposure to news programs was related to negative perceptions of African Americans as being violent and dangerous (Dixon, 2008).”