“It’s Just Not the Whole Story”: Black Perspectives of Protest Portrayals

IF 1 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI:10.1080/10646175.2021.2012852

Danielle K. Brown, Tamar Wilner, Gina M. Masullo

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract News organizations have a long history of covering civil rights protests in delegitimizing ways, and scholars have found that this coverage negatively affects public opinion. However, most media effects work has minimized the perspectives of Black people, and little is known about how racial identity might affect how protest coverage is perceived. We both survey (n = 1,052) and interview (n = 27) Black Americans to provide a rich understanding and interpretation of how they see and experience media coverage and how that influences them. We contribute to the literature by showing that Black Americans are dissatisfied with how news media cover their communities and covers protests, and they feel this coverage reifies harmful stereotypes and perpetuates invisibility politics.

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“这只是不是全部的故事”:黑人对抗议描述的看法

新闻机构以非合法化的方式报道民权抗议活动的历史由来已久，学者们发现这种报道对公众舆论产生了负面影响。然而，大多数媒体效应工作都最小化了黑人的视角，对于种族身份如何影响人们对抗议报道的看法，人们知之甚少。我们调查了(n = 1052)和采访了(n = 27)美国黑人，为他们如何看待和体验媒体报道以及媒体报道如何影响他们提供了丰富的理解和解释。我们通过展示美国黑人对新闻媒体如何报道他们的社区和抗议活动感到不满，从而对文献做出了贡献，他们认为这种报道具体化了有害的刻板印象，使隐形政治永久化。

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Howard Journal of Communications COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

10.00%

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期刊介绍： Culture, ethnicity, and gender influence multicultural organizations, mass media portrayals, interpersonal interaction, development campaigns, and rhetoric. Dealing with these issues, The Howard Journal of Communications, is a quarterly that examines ethnicity, gender, and culture as domestic and international communication concerns. No other scholarly journal focuses exclusively on cultural issues in communication research. Moreover, few communication journals employ such a wide variety of methodologies. Since issues of multiculturalism, multiethnicity and gender often call forth messages from persons who otherwise would be silenced, traditional methods of inquiry are supplemented by post-positivist inquiry to give voice to those who otherwise might not be heard.