Evidence of Linguistic Intergroup Bias in U.S. Print News Coverage of Immigration

This study content analyzed all print newspaper articles addressing U.S. immigration from Mexico appearing in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas during a 1-year period for presence of linguistic intergroup bias. Across all four states, negative statements outnumbered positive statements; this negativity bias was more pronounced for out-group than in-group statements in all states except California. Consistent with the linguistic intergroup bias, positive in-group and negative out-group statements were encoded using more abstract language than negative in-group and positive out-group statements.

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Content and Framing of Male- and Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence in Print News

Partner Abuse ◽

10.1891/1946-6560.5.3.259 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 259-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Brian G. Sellers ◽

Sarah L. Desmarais ◽

Melissa Tirotti

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Media Coverage ◽

News Coverage ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Individual Factors ◽

Male And Female ◽

Print News ◽

Private Matter ◽

Newspaper Articles

This article investigates the content and framing of newspaper articles reporting male- and female-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV). There were 173 newspaper articles coded for IPV severity, typology, and framing. Print news coverage of female-perpetrated IPV was limited; however, when reported, cases of female-perpetrated IPV were more severe, more likely to be described as perpetrated in self-defense, and less likely to be framed in terms of individual factors. For both male and female perpetrators, incidents of IPV were overwhelmingly framed as a private matter, whereas larger societal and cultural factors were rarely discussed. We discuss implications and make recommendations for broadening print media coverage of IPV to include the broader institutional, societal, and cultural causes of IPV rather than focusing primarily on individual factors.

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WHY IS THE SCHOOL DROP-OUT RATE SO HIGH?

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.83.3.336 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 83 (3) ◽

pp. 336-336

Author(s):

Student

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Drop Out ◽

Fifth Grade ◽

Drop Out Rate ◽

School Drop Out ◽

Positive Statements ◽

Negative Statements ◽

Years Of Schooling

Eighty percent of students entering school feel good about themselves and who they are. By the fifth grade only 20 percent have high self-esteem. By the time students become seniors in high school, the percentage who have managed to keep a positive level of self-esteem has dropped to 5 percent. Students encounter the equivalent of 60 days each year reprimanding, nagging and punishment. During 12 years of schooling a student is subject to 15,000 negative statements. That's three times the amount of positive statements received.

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Drowning Not Waving: The ‘Children Overboard’ Event and Australia's Fear of the other

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x0310900110 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 109 (1) ◽

pp. 93-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Kate Slattery

Keyword(s):

Media Coverage ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

News Coverage ◽

National Identities ◽

Global Village ◽

Print News ◽

The People ◽

Identity Based ◽

And Migration ◽

Selection Of

The last few years have been an awakening time for the people, communities and governments of the global village. Escalating problems in the Middle East, global economic uncertainty and an increase in asylum seekers, refugees and migration worldwide have reignited tensions involving boundaries and borders, both geographical and cognitive. One event which highlighted these tensions in Australia, and which was given much media coverage, was the ‘children overboard’ event in October 2001. Utilising a selection of print news coverage of the event, this paper explores how the ‘children overboard’ event demarcated national identities and spaces through the construction and representation of ‘good’ Australian citizens and ‘bad’ asylum seeker ‘others’. Specifically referring to ‘children overboard’ as an ‘event’, I seek to highlight the constructed and representational nature of ‘children overboard’ as a media story and political tool, one which promoted a continuing threat of ‘others’ to the nation in order to gain support for government policy and legitimize national security, and in so doing creating a model of Australian citizenship and identity based upon fear.

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Linguistic Intergroup Bias in Political Communication

The Journal of General Psychology ◽

10.3200/genp.133.3.237-255 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 133 (3) ◽

pp. 237-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Luigi Anolli ◽

Valentino Zurloni ◽

Giuseppe Riva

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

Intergroup Bias ◽

Linguistic Intergroup Bias

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Die mediale Darstellung des Föderalismus während der Corona-Pandemie – Eine Auswertung von Positionen, Konnotationen und Bewertungen in deutschen Tageszeitungen

der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management ◽

10.3224/dms.v14i2.12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2-2021) ◽

pp. 373-391

Author(s):

Iris Reus

Keyword(s):

Positive Statements ◽

Negative Statements

Die vorliegende Studie stellt die erste umfassende und systematische Analyse der Medienberichterstattung zum deutschen Föderalismus dar. Ausgewertet wurden Positionen, Konnotationen und Bewertungen in 449 Statements aus 14 Tageszeitungen im Zusammenhang mit der Corona-Pandemie für den Zeitraum März bis September 2020. Methodisch werden quantitative und qualitative Ansätze kombiniert, um sowohl Verteilungsmuster als auch Themen und Motive zu erfassen. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen für die Krise, was die Literatur für ‚normale Zeiten‘ annimmt: Eine deutliche Mehrheit aller veröffentlichten Statements zum Föderalismus fällt negativ aus. Dies änderte auch die Phase der Einheitlichkeit der Landesregelungen infolge der Einigung auf einen umfassenden bundesweiten Lockdown nicht. Die erfolgreiche Stabilisierung des Infektionsgeschehens ‚trotz‘ unterschiedlicher Lockerungen in den Ländern führte (absolut) zu weniger negativen Statements, aber nicht zu substantiell positiven. Mehrheitlich negative Statements finden sich in der Gruppe der Bevölkerung, der JournalistInnen und auch der PolitikerInnen insgesamt; mehrheitlich positive Statements finden sich lediglich bei LandespolitikerInnen der CDU/CSU.

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