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Portrayal of Race by Public and Private University Newspapers

This study investigated how two college newspapers cover race and how the papers employed racial stereotypes when describing sources. One of newspapers is a student-produced paper at a private university. The other is a student-produced newspaper at a public university. The study conducted content analyses of front-page news stories in both college newspapers. The sources in the story were analyzed for racial stereotypes. Stereotypes were identified based on frames used in modern racism research. A t-test and chi-square were used to compare the coverage of minorities to Whites. Once the quantitative content analysis was completed, I used textual analysis to identify what ways the news stories used stereotypical coverage of minorities. The study used critical media theory.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc33162
Date12 1900
CreatorsHayton, Tasha
ContributorsEverbach, Tracy Ellen, Fuse, Koji, Mueller, James
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 62 p., Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Hayton, Tasha, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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