News Coverage of Immigration: The Influence of Exposure to Linguistic Bias in the News on Consumer's Racial/Ethnic Cognitions

Mastro, Dana; Tukachinsky, Riva; Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth; Blecha, Erin

doi:10.1080/01463373.2014.890115

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“…To do this, we conducted content analysis (Hay, 2005) of primary documents and relevant media discourse regarding the policy and the people affected by DACA. Media content analysis has been used widely as a method in a variety of disciplines to explore discourse on particular topics, including immigration (Dragojevic, Sink, & Mastro, 2017;Mastro, Tukachinsky, Behm-Morawitz, & Blecha, 2014;May et al, 2015;Saraisky 2015;Williams, 2016). Other research has examined DACA as a policy and the implications for the DACA community from other perspectives and through different methods.…”

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A Content Analysis of the Contributions in the Narratives of DACA Youth

Rodriguez

Zehyoue

2019

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This study utilized cultural community wealth (Yosso, 2005) to explore the ways in which Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) youth make use of social media. Through the use of content analysis (Hay, 2005), the authors analyzed social media interviews publicly posted by DACA youth. Findings reveal that DACA youth engage in social media as a form of activism and to mobilize their communities. The findings support and extend our understanding of the ways that DACA youth are an asset to the wider community. Implications for those working with DACA youth are provided.

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A Content Analysis of the Contributions in the Narratives of DACA Youth

Rodriguez

Zehyoue

2019

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“…To do this, we conducted a content analysis (Hay 2005) of primary documents and relevant media discourse to explore the ways in which Freedom University exemplifies a geography and space of care. Media content analysis has been used widely as a method in a variety of disciplines to explore discourse on particular topics, including immigration (Chavez, Whiteford, and Hoewe ; García Agustín ; Luque et al ; Mastro et al ; May et al ; Saraisky ; Amthor and Roxas ; Williams ; Dragojevic, Sink, and Mastro ). Previous research has examined Freedom University from other perspectives and through different methods (see, for example, Muñoz, Espino, and Antrop‐González ).…”

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“FU”: One Response to the Liminal State Immigrant Youth Must Navigate

2019

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Undocumented youth experience partial integration in some institutional spaces but remain barred from others. Although they are permitted to attend and graduate from K–12 public schools, the geographic unevenness of immigration policy leads to inequitable access to higher education for undocumented youth. In this article, we examine undocumented higher education access and how an underground freedom school is providing an alternative. We apply the theoretical lens of spaces of care within the framework of geographies of care to understand the uneven legal geographies that exist and the structures that emerge to equip and empower youth to leverage their experiences with illegality.

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“…Although seemingly subtle and barely perceptible, language abstraction introduces a remarkable bias in many applied settings, including hiring decisions (Rubini & Menegatti, 2014), student evaluations (Menegatti, Crocetti, & Rubini, 2017) and political media content (e.g., Dragojevic, Sink, & Mastro, 2016;Mastro, Tukachinsky, Behm-Morawitz, & Blecha, 2014). Importantly, listeners exposed to biased language make inferences and attributions that align with the sender's beliefs or communication goals.…”

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Communicating Between Groups, Communicating About Groups

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Maass²

2018

Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations

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This chapter provides a selective overview of some of the most relevant aspects of intergroup communication. We first introduce the topic by discussing the relationship between intergroup communication and social identity. In the second part, we then cover three language strategies (category labels, language abstraction, and metaphors) that different groups can adopt when communicating between and about groups. Category labels reveal social meaning well beyond mere classification, by triggering affective reactions and stereotyping, whereas language abstraction and metaphors play a central role in establishing and maintaining stereotypes and intergroup relationships. In the third part, we directly address specific social groups, including salient and relatively unambiguous social categories (i.e., gender and race) as well as more fluid categories (i.e., regional and social background as well as sexual orientation). The chapter provides a broad overview of linguistic strategies and of their specific use with selected social categories, together with suggestions for the development of future research and theorizing. Communicating Between Groups, Communicating About GroupsBuilding from the introductory chapter, this chapter will elaborate on social identity theory and its intellectual sister theories (e.g., self-categorization theory). Further, we will focus particularly on language strategies used in an intergroup context (i.e., labels, language abstractness, and metaphors) and intergroup communication related to specific social groups (i.e., gender, race, and more fluid categories such as socio-geographical background and sexual orientation).More specifically this chapter is structured in three parts that follow a brief overview of intergroup communication in relation to social identity, self-categorization, and communication accommodation theory. In the first part, we will discuss three language tools that play a prominent role in communicating within, across, and about social groups. These include group labels, which can create friendly or hostile intergroup relations and can induce stereotype threat in those targeted by the same label. In the second part, we will cover language abstraction and metaphors, both of which can play a very important role in intergroup communication, as they reflect, maintain, and create intergroup bias and aid stereotype dissemination. Whereas in the first part of the chapter we will be referring to groups in general (with some specific examples), in the second part we will address issues related to important social categories. We will address gender and race and, subsequently, more fluid categories such as social class, geographical/regional background, and sexual orientation. The section on gender will cover issues related to grammatical gender (e.g., actor vs. actress) and the consequences of using masculine forms to represent both females and males. The part on interracial communication will address the issue of race/ethnicity in terms of labels we use to address different groups ...

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News Coverage of Immigration: The Influence of Exposure to Linguistic Bias in the News on Consumer's Racial/Ethnic Cognitions

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

A Content Analysis of the Contributions in the Narratives of DACA Youth

A Content Analysis of the Contributions in the Narratives of DACA Youth

“FU”: One Response to the Liminal State Immigrant Youth Must Navigate

Communicating Between Groups, Communicating About Groups

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