Conference paper | Konferenzbeitrag
Media Bias Towards African-americans Before and After the Charlottesville Rally
African-Americans are still experiencing racial discrimination rooted in structural bias in US American society. Research has shown that this behaviour can be reduced if individuals are made conscious of their bias, but little is known about these mechanisms on a societal level. Envisaging the white-supremacist Charlottesville rally in 2017 as an event that rendered American society conscious of its racism, we scrutinise whether racial bias in the digital media has changed, comparing levels of pre- and post-Charlottesville bias. We fit word embedding models to a broad sample of largely US media and quantify bias by calculating cosine similarities between terms for black or white actors and positive or negative character traits. We find no differences in positive character traits after Charlottesville. However, African-Americans are associated substantially less with negative character traits post-Charlottesville, while white actors are semantically closer to negative traits.
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Seite(n): 10
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Englisch
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Status: Erstveröffentlichung; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
2. Weizenbaum Conference. Berlin, 2019
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Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 "Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life"
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Psychologie
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Sozialpsychologie
soziale Probleme
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Digitale Medien
Stereotyp
öffentliche Meinung
Rassismus
Einstellungsänderung
Diskriminierung
USA
Vorurteil
Online-Medien
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Leschke, Julia C.
Schwemmer, Carsten
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland, Berlin
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2019
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Leschke, Julia C.
- Schwemmer, Carsten
Entstanden
- 2019
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