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- Title
Clouded reality: News representations of culturally close and distant ethnic outgroups.
- Authors
Kroon, Anne C.; Trilling, Damian; Meer, Toni G. L. A. van der; Jonkman, Jeroen G. F.
- Abstract
The current study explores how the cultural distance of ethnic outgroups relative to the ethnic ingroup is related to stereotypical news representations. It does so by drawing on a sample of more than three million Dutch newspaper articles and uses advanced methods of automated content analysis, namely word embeddings. The results show that distant ethnic outgroup members (i. e., Moroccans) are associated with negative characteristics and issues, while this is not the case for close ethnic outgroup members (i. e., Belgians). The current study demonstrates the usefulness of word embeddings as a tool to study subtle aspects of ethnic bias in mass-mediated content.
- Subjects
ETHNIC relations in the press; CONTENT analysis; PREJUDICES; STEREOTYPES; NEWSPAPERS
- Publication
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 2020, Vol 45, p744
- ISSN
0341-2059
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/commun-2019-2069