Stereotyping Online? Internet News, Social Media, and the Racial Typification of Crime

Intravia, Jonathan; Pickett, Justin T.

doi:10.1111/socf.12515

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“…Thus, hypotheses 2 and 3 are accepted. Those findings are consistent with the normative arguments and epistemological findings highlighted in the existing literature related to internet-based deviant behaviours, such as cyber-loafing [ 78 ], cyberbullying [ 72 , 79 ], racial typification [ 70 ], and cyber-ostracism [ 81 ].…”

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“…Convergent validity was assessed based on the data from Study 2 ( n = 511) with other construal-level scales reported. Based on the existing literature on cybercrime and cyberbullying, we expected the CRIT to be positively related to problematic internet usage [ 3 , 35 , 70 ] and negative relationship satisfaction [ 35 , 71 , 72 ]. Hence, the following well-established measures were used: the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIUQ) [ 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 ] and the Negative Semantic Dimension (NSD) from the Positive and Negative Semantic Dimensions of Relationship Satisfaction (PN-SMD) scale [ 77 ].…”

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Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

Wong

Fung

2020

IJERPH

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Two studies were conducted to support the development of an eight-item Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool (CRIT) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the proposed scale on samples of secondary school and university students. The CRIT was developed and evaluated in two cross-sectional studies with 2044 respondents from Hong Kong and China. Study 1 recruited 1533 secondary school students from Hong Kong with a mean age of 14.91 (SD = 1.77) years, and Study 2 recruited 511 university students from mainland China with a mean age of 20.41 (SD = 2.49) years. A stepwise confirmatory factor analytical approach was taken with further verification by exploratory factor analysis based on different samples. Factorial validity was further verified using confirmatory factor analysis. The analyses supported an eight-item scale with a two-factor structure. The eight-item CRIT was found to possess good internal consistency and concurrent validity. The studies offer promising support for the CRIT. It has the potential to advance epistemological methods and clinical research related to cybercrime prevention.

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confidence: 99%

Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

Wong

Fung

2020

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“…Third, the current study would test the moderating role of direct media consumption on these associations. That is, in line with prior research (Dixon, 2008b;Intravia & Pickett, 2019), the links between the salience of the war and ethnic prejudice would be stronger and significant among adolescents who more often rely on these media outlets as a source of information.…”

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A war on prejudice: The role of media salience in reducing ethnic prejudice

Bobba,

Thijs,

Crocetti

2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionEthnic prejudice poses a great challenge to the cohesion of current multicultural societies. Prior research has found that media portrayals of immigration‐related issues might skew individual attitudes and feelings toward ethnic minorities. While these studies have focused on negative representations of ethnic minorities, less is known about the effects of media reports of unfortunate events affecting the victims of war, as in the case of the Ukrainian group in the Russia–Ukraine war. Therefore, the current research aims to examine whether media salience of this situation might change adolescents' ethnic prejudice against the Ukrainian minority.MethodsA total of 1016 ethnic‐majority Italian adolescents (Mage = 15.66, SDage = 1.17, 49.61% females) completed online questionnaires during school hours before (T1: January/February 2022) and after (T2: April/May 2022) the Russia–Ukraine war onset. Additionally, the media salience of the war was quantified separately for the national newspaper and Twitter.ResultsLevels of prejudice significantly decreased from T1 to T2 for multiple ethnic minority groups but especially so for the Ukrainian group. The results of bivariate Latent Change Score models highlighted that increased salience of the war in the national newspaper was significantly associated with decreased prejudice against Ukrainians, regardless of adolescents' levels of self‐reported newspaper consumption. Conversely, changes in the salience of the war on Twitter were not associated with changes in prejudice.ConclusionsThese findings highlight the importance of media attention for the war's victims in skewing individuals' outgroup perceptions and feelings.

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“…On the other hand, some researchers claimed that exposure to only radicalized groupthink and conformity on social media can increase stereotyping such that social media may reproduce stereotypes and marginalization (Dobson & Knezevic, 2018). In fact, social media and television news increase stereotyping African Americans as criminals because they sometimes fit negative stereotypical information of the group (Intravia & Pickett, 2019). Offensive content and online aggression on social media reinforces feminine stereotypes, resulting in harmful consequences for females (Felmlee, Inara Rodis, & Zhang, 2020;Bailey et al, 2013).…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

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Interventions to Reduce Stereotyping Through Targeting Familiarity Preference

Liu

Baek

2021

J Stud Res

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As people perceive familiar and unfamiliar individuals, they may subconsciously be influenced by stereotypical information that is harmful to the target. Stereotyping affects everyone and is connected to innate biases, noting familiarity preference in particular. Given the pervasiveness of this, we investigate the impact of familiarity preference on stereotypes through discussing and referencing research related to the topics of stereotypes, familiarity preference, and interventions to reduce stereotyping through targeting familiarity preference. Indeed, the warm feeling of recognition builds a trusting bond between individuals with the possibility to reduce stereotypical assumptions by affecting familiarity preference; therefore, we consider interventions by way of social media, education, and in-person exposure. Our discussion is essential in enhancing the understanding of how both stereotypes and familiarity preferences affect individuals’ interactions and the necessity to reduce the damage that results from stereotyping.

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Stereotyping Online? Internet News, Social Media, and the Racial Typification of Crime

Cited by 18 publications

References 79 publications

Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

A war on prejudice: The role of media salience in reducing ethnic prejudice

Interventions to Reduce Stereotyping Through Targeting Familiarity Preference

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