Media representations of majority and minority groups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10901291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hazel R Atuel (0000-0001-5016-1273, Claremont Graduate University), Hazel Atuel, Viviane Seyranian (0000-0002-3339-2931, Claremont Graduate University), William D Crano (0000-0003-3392-6937, Claremont Graduate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-572 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ejsp.377 |
| OpenAlex | W2117033741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
This research series replicated and extended earlier findings of Gardikiotis, Martin, and Hewstone ( 2004 ), who examined via content analysis UK media representations of numeric majority and minority groups. Using news articles from North and South Dakota, where majority/minority population characteristics mirror those of the UK in terms of number and power, Study 1 replicated the patterns of results found in Gardikiotis et al . Study 2, in which articles from California newspapers were analyzed, yielded findings contrary to Gardikiotis et al. and our Dakota analyses: Minority headlines were more frequent in California, and majority articles were longer than minority articles. Consistent with UK and Dakotas findings, majority headlines in California were associated with politics and identity adjectives, whereas minority headlines were linked to social issues and ethnicity‐based adjectives. Arguably, these differences occurred because in California, unlike the UK and the Dakotas, Whites are not simultaneously the social power and the numeric majority. Variations in power and number associated with majority and minority status were discussed in explaining differences across contexts, and in signaling possible shortcomings in the conceptualization and methods used to investigate minority and majority influence. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Conceptualization · Ethnic group · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Media studies · Minority group · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Violence on Television
Attitudes and Persuasion
Beyond the Contact Hypothesis
Culture, Mind, and the Brain
Studies of independence and conformity
Human groups and social categories
Identity in Modern Society
The representation of social issues in public discourse and newspaper language
Social categorization in minority influence
Paradoxical effects of categorization in minority influence
The representation of majorities and minorities in the British press
Cognitive and affective experiences of minority and majority members
Culture and conformity
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |