Relating adolescents’ exposure to legacy and digital news media and intergroup contact to their attitudes towards immigrants

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Vissenberg ◽  
David De Coninck ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
School Context ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Abstract Previous research has found that news coverage on immigration is often biased in negative ways and that it inspires the formation of negative attitudes towards immigrants. However, academic research about this link between news consumption and attitudes towards immigrants among adolescents remains limited. The current study aims to test this association from a media-exposure and intergroup-contact perspective using survey data from 875 adolescents in Flanders, Belgium. The findings show that only television news consumption, thus no other types of news consumption, was associated with adolescents’ attitudes towards immigrants. Intergroup contact within the friend group, outside the school context, was linked to more positive attitudes. This study nuances earlier findings that news consumption predicts attitudes towards immigrants. Implications for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Education Coverage in Television News: A Typology and Analysis of 35 Years of Topics

AERA Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 233285841775169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Coe ◽  
Paul J. Kuttner
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Appendix ◽  
News Networks ◽  
K 12

News media play a significant role in the education policy arena, informing the public about pressing issues and influencing how such issues are prioritized and understood. For this reason, researchers are increasingly raising concerns about how much attention news media give to education, which topics are covered, and how topics are addressed. In this article, the authors advance this growing body of research through a quantitative content analysis of the topics in national television news coverage of pre-K–12 (early childhood through high school) education in the United States over the past 35 years. The authors present their typology of education topics, providing a foundation for future research in this area, and analyze major trends. This article also serves as an introduction to a new data set: 2,322 abstracts, representing all substantial education news coverage from the three major evening news networks, included as an online appendix.

Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Maurer ◽  
Jörg Haßler ◽  
Simon Kruschinski ◽  
Pablo Jost
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
British Government ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line with news value theory, German media outlets reported much more on migration than did their British counterparts. In line with indexing theory, German news coverage consonantly reflected the consensual view of German political elites, while British news media reported along their general editorial lines.

Een typologie van jonge nieuwsgebruikers in een multimediaal landschap

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Van Cauwenberge ◽  
Hans Beentjes ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Online News ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Low Level ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Online News Sites

A typology of young news users in the Low Countries A typology of young news users in the Low Countries This article investigates different types of young news users (15-34 years) in the Low Countries. Therefore a survey among 1200 Flemish and Dutch youngsters and adolescents was conducted, analyzing the combined use of media platforms for news consumption and time spent with these news carriers. The cluster analysis identified five types of news users: the sound and vision group, characterized by the use of mainly audiovisual news platforms, combined with online news sites; the e-news users, who give most prominence to online news sites but also rely on traditional news platforms, the all rounders, depending on a range of off- and online news channels; the traditionalists, who spent most time with offline news media; and the dabblers, a group with an overall low level of news consumption. Our results indicate that Flemish and Dutch youngsters combine online and traditional news platforms for their news gathering, giving most prominence to traditional news media, especially television news.

scholarly journals How television news disguises its racist representations: The case of Romanian Antena 1 reporting on the Roma

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-843
Author(s):  
Petre Breazu ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Eu Project

Research shows that news media around the world tend to represent ethnic minorities in ways which nurture distorted views and invite negative attitudes. Scholars have also emphasised that, in contemporary societies, a political climate has emerged which has made overt racism unacceptable and social taboos leading to racist statements are increasingly being managed and disguised in order to avoid direct accusations. In this paper we use Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to carry out an in-depth analysis of a Romanian television news report—selected from a larger corpus—which addressed the situation of the Roma migrants in Norway. We show how this medium, with editing techniques, voice-overs, sound effects and captions, has its own subtleties for communicating racism in ways that are less obvious at a casual viewing. The case we analyse reports on a Norwegian/EU project to build a factory in Romania, so that Roma migrants can return home to work rather than live and beg on the streets of Oslo.

News media and perceptions of police: a state-of-the-art-review

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Graziano
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Meta Review ◽  
Perceptions Of Police

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature examining the role of news media consumption and awareness in shaping public attitudes about police.Design/methodology/approachA comprehensive, systematic search of multiple academic databases (e.g. EBSCO Host) was undertaken, supplemented by the use of Google Scholar to search among journals indicated as having cited the articles found in the databases.FindingsA total of 42 studies were identified that met the selection criteria for this meta-review and examined exposure to high-profile incidents involving police, awareness of negative news coverage of police, and/or consumption of specific news mediums (e.g. newspapers). Overall, research supports a relationship between negative perceptions of police and both exposure to high-profile incidents and awareness of negative coverage. Some support for the influence of consuming television news on attitudes exists, but more research is needed on the role of different news sources in shaping perceptions. Future research should also include determining causal pathways and how news about police is selected.Originality/valueThis is the first meta-review of the research examining how news media and attitudes about police are related. This study will provide a useful resource for those researchers wishing to continue to examine different aspects of news media consumption as a predictor of perceptions.

The Hostile Media Effect

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
News Media ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Hostile Media Effect ◽  
Hostile Media

The “hostile media effect” occurs when opposing partisans perceive identical news coverage of a controversial issue as biased against their own side. This is a robust phenomenon, which has been empirically demonstrated in numerous experimental and observational studies across a variety of issue contexts and has been shown to have important consequences for democratic society. This chapter reviews the literature on the hostile media effect with an eye toward the theoretical explanations for it, its relationship to other psychological processes, and its broader implications for perceived public opinion, news consumption patterns, attitudes toward democratic institutions, and political discourse and participation. Particular attention is paid to how the hostile media phenomenon can help explain the public’s eroding trust in the news media and the recent polarization among news audiences. The chapter concludes with several suggestions for future research.

News, Children, and Young People

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiri Elvestad
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
People First

Studies of how children and young people relate to news have made important contributions to the field of journalism. As early as the early 1900s, children’s and young people’s news exposure was considered with interest. News exposure plays an important role for citizenship in democracies, and for news media organizations, recruiting new generations of audiences is important for survival in the future. From the early days, scholars have mainly focused on four areas in studies of news children and young people. First, the role of mass media as an agent of political socialization and how news exposure can inspire children and young people to civic engagement. Second, the introduction of television and television news increased the numbers of studies of children’s and adolescent’s emotional reactions to news coverage, and the emotional reactions to violence in the news coverage in particular. Third, an increasing focus on children’s rights and children as a minority group has further inspired studies of representation of children and young people in the news. Finally, inspired by methodological approaches focusing on people’s motivation for the use of different media and how they were used (“uses and gratification” studies), a main area for researchers has been to grasp how children and young people engage with news and how they do so in changed media environments. In the last decade, journalism studies have increasingly focused on how children and young people receive, evaluate, produce, and share news in social media.

Media use, fear of terrorism, and attitudes towards immigrants and refugees: Young people and adults compared

2019 ◽  
pp. 174804851986947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies Debrael ◽  
Leen d’Haenens ◽  
Rozane De Cock ◽  
David De Coninck
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Do So

In Flanders, citizens hold rather negative attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. This could be due to the news media, which depict newcomers in a rather negative way. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there are separate media worlds at work in Flemish young people and adults and whether this results in different attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. To do so, we questioned 1,759 people aged 13 to 65 by means of an online questionnaire. Results indicate that overall news consumption increases with age, and that young people mainly use social media for their news consumption while adults still rely on traditional media. Interestingly, young adults are the most welcoming group towards immigrants and refugees. Although news media consumption seems to be related to fear of terrorism and attitudes towards newcomers to some extent, socio-demographic factors play an important role in the development of fear and negative attitudes towards newcomers.

News Media Presentations of Electronic Cigarettes: A Content Analysis of News Coverage in South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sei-Hill Kim ◽  
James F. Thrasher ◽  
Myung-Hyun Kang ◽  
Yoo Jin Cho ◽  
Joon Kyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
News Media ◽  
Electronic Cigarettes ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
News Stories ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
Potential Benefits

Analyzing newspaper articles and television news transcripts, our study examines the quantity and the nature of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) coverage in South Korea. In terms of the quantity, we found that news coverage of e-cigarettes significantly increased in the most recent 2 years (2014 and 2015). Our analysis of story topics indicated that South Korean news media were more likely to present e-cigarettes as a policy issue than a health issue, talking primarily about how to regulate this new product. When it comes to potential benefits and drawbacks of e-cigarettes, news coverage was unbalanced and more likely to talk about health risks than benefits. Overall, the tone of news stories was largely unfavorable, suggesting that public sentiment in South Korea has been rather negative than positive toward e-cigarette vaping. We also found that such journalistic practices as relying heavily on established routine sources and focusing on the stories that can attract larger audiences might have affected the way e-cigarettes were presented in the news.

scholarly journals The ignored audience: A multi-method reception study on children and television news in Albania

Childhood ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiljano Kaziaj ◽  
Sofie Van Bauwel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reception Study ◽  
The Public Sphere

Children are not considered to be an appropriate audience for news coverage based on their presumed lack of emotional maturity, critical thinking and proper knowledge. This article challenges these views by presenting the opinions of children aged 10–15 who report having watched broadcast news nearly every day. Additionally, the views of adults aged 25–62 are investigated. Children contest to the ways they are being portrayed by the news media and demonstrate their need to be considered as active participants in the public sphere, which is presented by the news media as an exclusive domain for adults.

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