References to Articles Pertaining to Race and Media
Lundman, RJ. "The newsworthiness and selection bias in news about murder: Comparative and relative effects of novelty and race and gender typifications on newspaper coverage of homicide," Sociological Forum 18.3 (2003): 357-386 .
This article deals with the treatment of murder stories by members of the media, and how they present stories according to a stereotypical formulae, which have been established through years of misrepresentation of different ethniticities. The article makes suggestions for improving the bias of media members which ultimately goes into determining newsworthiness of stories. This would be useful to someone engaged in research concerning race, ethnicity and media discourse because it provides evidence of the selectivity that goes into treatments of stories pertaining to race, gender and ethnicity.
Title: The police officer's dilemma: Using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals
Author(s): Correll J, Park B, Judd CM, Wittenbrink B
Source: JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 83 (6): 1314-1329 DEC 2002
This article is based on a study performed on police officers who were assessed on the amount of time it took them to shoot armed persons, while avioding unarmed persons using a virtual videogame. The study showed that White cops would more readily shoot at armed individuals if they were black, and would also not shoot an unarmed target if they were white. This study was conducted to show the racism that exist, and how it could be of potentail danger when practised by police officers who have the power to practise racial profiling. This would be of use because it shows working examples of how rascism does exist, and it wouldn't be hard to find a speific case study of wrongful racial profiling.
Title: RACIAL IDEOLOGY IN UNITED-STATES MAINSTREAM NEWS MAGAZINE COVERAGE OF BLACK-LATINO INTERACTION, 1980-1992
Author(s): SHAH H, THORNTON MC
Source: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICATION 11 (2): 141-161 JUN 1994
This article discusses the implications journalistic practises can have on ideas of race, gender and ethnicity, and how important is it for individuals who have the power to sway public opionion, to do so in a favourable way. The article also introduces the abstract term ideology which is a predetermined way of thinking ingrained by social norms, beliefs and ideals of a society. The article would be useful because it exposes some of these ideologies ascribed to by people, making it extremely difficult to suggest alternate opinions about race and ethnicity.
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