US Media and Diversity

Travis L. Dixon (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is the David L. Swanson Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Dixon is a media effects scholar specializing in investigating the prevalence of stereotypes in the mass media and the impact of stereotypical imagery on audience members. Dana Mastro (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently serving as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel. Her research documents representations of ethnic/racial groups in the media and examines the effects of exposure to these depictions on perceptions of self as well as interethnic/interracial dynamics in society and policy decision-making.

Foreword- US Media and Diversity: Representation, Dissemination, and Effects

Section 1: Identity and Media

1. Influencing Others through Race-Related Expression: An Examination of Black, Latina, and White Female Celebrities’ Social Media Posts

2. Making the Model: How News Media Perpetuate Harmful Model Minority Stereotypes of Asian Americans

3. Streaming While Black: An Exploration of Black Streaming Subscribers’ Perceptions of “Black Voices” Content and its Relationship with Racial Identification and Perceived Vitality

4. Psychological distress, addiction, and unique ties to Blackness: An overview of representations highlighting the intersection of race and mental health

Section 2: Interrogating news content and effects of exposure

5. The Portrayal of Black Family Social Instability: A Content Analysis of Family and Race across Traditional and New Media Sources

6. Dehumanizing Black Children and Treating them Like Adults: Ingroup Favoritism and Outgroup Derogation in Evaluating Children Criminal Suspects in News Stories

7. Disentangling Latinos and Immigrants: The Role of Shame and Anger in Response to Group-Threatening News Coverage

Section 3: Re-envisioning media models and paradigms

8. Digital Deconstructions and Research Reconsiderations: A Critical Media Effects Approach to Race in Digital Spaces

9. “Abbott Elementary” and the Resilient Black Girl Dork: Reimaging Black Womanhood

10. Black Audiences’ Digital Media Use and Favorable Outcomes

11. Mediatedcounter-narratives: A framework for studying mediastereotyping and the reclaiming of storiesby marginalizedgroups