Examining the Link between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration Reform

Abrajano, Marisa; Singh, Simran

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“…In that case, Latinos who used Spanish news sources were more aware of immigration initiatives and held more favorable views of illegal immigrants than did Latinos who relied primarily on English news sources (Abrajano & Singh, 2009).…”

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“…Brians and Wattenburg (1996) found that political ads, rather than television news or newspaper articles are more important to respondents' knowledge about candidates' issue positions, especially in later stages of the campaign,2 but later studies found television news most important (Feldman & Price, 2008). Television news, more than radio, newspapers or magazines, has shown an ability to "prime" audiences into thinking about certain issues or events (Abrajano & Singh, 2009 (Holbert, 2005). Looking at the interaction between newspaper reading and television news viewing content over time, the intermediation effect of these two forms of media was seen to significantly affect voter issue knowledge about various groups' presidential campaign endorsements.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Agenda setting is generally accepted as the process by which news outlets focus on certain issues more than others and, thereby, affect the issues that individuals think about and the perspective they have on the issue (Abrajano & Singh, 2009 Iyengar and Kinder (1987) manipulated the media exposure subjects saw and found that people's identification of the country's most important problem varied, depending on the media to which they had been exposed.…”

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“…Likewise, Abrajano and Singh (2009) found that the Latinos' political thought was influenced by the media outlets they used. In that case, Latinos who used Spanish news sources were more aware of immigration initiatives and held more favorable views of illegal immigrants than did Latinos who relied primarily on English news sources (Abrajano & Singh, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Depending on the type of election and the media sources chosen for examinationpolitical ads, television news, political debates and/or newspaper articles -different types of media have been found to weigh most heavily in voters' knowledge about candidates' issue positions (Abrajano & Singh, 2009;Brians & Wattenburg, 1996;Craig, Kane & Gainous, 2005;Eveland, Hays, Shah & Kwak, 2005;Feldman & Price, 2008;Kwak, Williams,Wang & Lee, 2005;Weaver & Drew, 2001). Holbert (2005) has argued that these contradictory findings are indicative of the failure to consider the intermediation relationship of different fonns of media, especially over the course of a campaign.…”

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Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

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Narratives, or the telling of stories, are a powerful tool used to gain support for public policies. The advent of new social media, including YouTube, provides opportunities for less-mainstream narratives of cooperation, but are these opportunities being realized? Using the Narrative Policy Framework and Schneider and Ingram's Social Construction of target populations as the theoretical basis, we analyzed 95 English and Spanish YouTube videos focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border and found they demonstrate a maintained focus on mainstream, divisive issues such as security and violence, immigration, and drugs. However, although new media often cover mainstream issues, YouTube videos appear to construct more favorable perspectives of the border region than traditional media: 52 percent of the videos constructed a sympathetic view of the border, including the people associated with it, while 48 percent of the videos constructed an unsympathetic view. Understanding the use of these narratives can have real-world impacts for developing policy along the U.S.-Mexico border; possibly creating greater cooperation vital to solving many of the urgent problems border communities face on a day-to-day basis.

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Crossing the Border: Latino Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy

Stringer

2018

Int. Migration & Integration

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In the midst of the ongoing and highly polarized immigration debate, it seems that little attention has been paid to how Latinos view efforts to address the issues of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States and enhanced enforcement efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Consequently, questions arise as to the degree of support for or rejection of such measures within the Latino community and among the various segments of that community. Do U.S.-born Latinos, foreignborn naturalized citizens, and undocumented immigrants from various parts of Latin America have similar or divergent views on these issues? It is generally assumed that ethnicity is an important factor in influencing attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policies. Some studies have found that foreign-born Latinos have more positive attitudes toward immigration than native-born Latinos due in part to their shared immigration experience. There are, however, other studies demonstrating that Latino immigrants have often expressed support for more restrictive immigration policies. It may hold true, in fact, that many Latinos have ambiguous and conflicting attitudes about these issues. This article will try to shed some light on Latinos' attitudes regarding specific policy measures by analyzing data from the Pew Hispanic Center National Survey of Latinos, which allows for considerable differentiation among various sectors of the Latino population.

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Examining the Link between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration Reform

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Would you like to talk? : the impact of media and interpersonal communication on knowledge about candidates and likelihood of voting.

Would you like to talk? : the impact of media and interpersonal communication on knowledge about candidates and likelihood of voting.

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

Crossing the Border: Latino Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy

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