Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as Lawbreakers on Television News

By Travis L. Dixon, Daniel G. Linz. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Gender Studies, Law, AI Ethics, Fairness & Society, Social Sciences & Humanities

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MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models (2021, background): “Local broadcast news (at least in the United States) spends a lot of time covering crime stories, often in a racist and sensationalized manner [32, 23, 36].”
Moderating Effect of Group Cue While Processing News on Immigration: Is the Framing Effect a Heuristic Process? (2009, background): “Druckman (2001) has empirically observed that source credibility can increase or limit the framing effect.”
The virtual census: representations of gender, race and age in video games (2009, background): “Groups systematically shown in negative contexts in media can become stereotyped by other groups (Dixon and Linz, 2000).”
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism (2001, background): “Through its lurid treatment of crime, which it treats as a largely black and urban phenomenon, the media fosters a negative stereotype of cities (Dixon & Linz, 2000; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Jamieson, 2000).”
Cognitive Representations of Black Americans: Reexploring the Role of Skin Tone (2002, background): “This distinction could reflect specific representations of Black men and women in television news reports and other media depictions (e.g., Dixon & Linz, 2000).”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, background): “…media may contribute to the prototype of the “Black criminal” by providing viewers with a host of examples of crime and particularly salient, violent crime, in which Blacks are more likely than Whites to be portrayed as criminal (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Oliver, 1994).”
Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement (2006, methodology): “Prior work suggests that Blacks may be repeatedly associated with criminality on television news (Dixon & Linz, 2000b; Entman, 1992, 1994; Entman & Rojecki, 2000).”
Television Viewing and Perceptions About Race Differences in Socioeconomic Success (2002, background): “In a content analysis of television news coverage in the Los Angeles television market, Dixon and Linz (2000) found that African Americans and Latinos were more likely than Whites to be portrayed as perpetrators of crime and less likely to be portrayed as police officers. Romer, Jamieson, and De Cot”
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign (2012, background): “For example, content analyses of news have convincingly demonstrated that minorities are portrayed in negative roles and are associated with negative issues, such as crime or terrorism (Dixon & Linz, 2000; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; ter Wal, 2002).”
The Racial and Ethnic Typification of Crime and The Criminal Typification of Race and Ethnicity in Local Television News (2002, background): “The only ratio above 1.0 was reported by Dixon and Linz (2000).”
Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping (2007, neutral): “Racial portrayals in the media have been studied across a wide variety of media contexts, including news (Dixon & Linz, 2000a,b; Entman, 1992, 1994a,b; Gilens, 1996), prime-time programming (Mastro & Robinson, 2000; Oliver, 1994), and advertising (Coltrane & Messineo, 2000; Mastro & Stern, 2003).”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “The news media depicts these groups as violent aggressors targeting White victims (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
A social identity approach to understanding the impact of television messages (2003, background): “Content analyses have continually shown the news media’s propensity to represent Blacks as violent and dangerous (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous black criminal. (2005, background): “%) on news programs compared to employment records (59%; Dixon & Linz, 2000a).”