Other publications related to or building on the material in the book.
In this article, we focus on broad patterns and trends in the coverage of Muslims to better understand the effect of 9/11. We show that key changes in the content of coverage were both nearly instantaneous and persistent.
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.