Does the tone of media coverage directly affect public attitudes? We use an online between-subjects experiment to show that exposure to articles of quantifiably different valences about Muslims or Catholics affects reported attitudes toward each of those groups.
A central feature of the book is our analysis of the degree of positivity or negativity of a newspaper articles. To perform this analysis, we developed a new sentiment analysis method, which outperforms other lexicon-based approaches on standard benchmarks and is more robust across a range of different domains.
In this third annual report, we examine 2020 coverage of six significant American racial, ethnic, or religious groups - African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Muslims.
In this second annual report, we examine 2019 coverage of six significant American racial, ethnic, or religious groups - African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Muslims.
In this first annual report, we examine 2018 coverage of five significant American racial, ethnic, or religious groups - African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Muslims.