Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime

By Travis L. Dixon. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, AI Ethics, Fairness & Society, Social Sciences & Humanities

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MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models (2021, background): “Past work has shown correlation between watching local news and having more explicit racialized beliefs about crime [22]; it seems very likely therefore that training models on this data could also have them learn the same racist patterns.”
Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008, background): “In addition, the sample was originally gathered as part of a larger study of race and media exposure (Dixon, 2008).”
The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer's Social Judgments (2009, background): “Further, consuming these messages has been shown to provoke prejudicial responses among White viewers ( Dixon, 2007 , 2008 ; Dixon & Maddox, 2005 ).”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “Similarly, increased exposure to TV news programming (which overrepresents Blacks as criminals) is associated with perceptions of Blacks as violent and unlawful (Dixon, 2008).”
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).”
The Contact Space: A Novel Framework for Intergroup Contact Research (2010, background): “For instance, T. Dixon (2008) shows that White television viewers who consume high volumes of local news come to believe that Black people are violent and heavily involved in crime.”