Media Bias Towards African-americans Before and After the Charlottesville Rally

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dc.contributor.authorLeschke, Julia C.
dc.contributor.authorSchwemmer, Carsten
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAfrican-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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citationLeschke, J. C., & Schwemmer, C. (2019). Media Bias Towards African-americans Before and After the Charlottesville Rally. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019: Challenges of Digital Inequality, 164–173. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.25
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.25
dc.identifier.eissn2510-7666
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/113
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWeizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartofhttps://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWeizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSocial problems and servicesen
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.subjectNews media, journalism, publishingen
dc.subjectSocial Psychologyen
dc.subjectInteractive, electronic Mediaen
dc.subjectSocial Problemsen
dc.subjectattitude changeen
dc.subjectdiscriminationen
dc.subjectpublic opinionen
dc.subjectstereotypeen
dc.subjectonline mediaen
dc.subjectprejudiceen
dc.subjectdigital mediaen
dc.subjectUnited States of Americaen
dc.subjectracismen
dc.subjectPsychologiede
dc.subjectSoziale Probleme und Sozialdienstede
dc.subjectPublizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesende
dc.subjectMedia biasde
dc.subjectEthnic studiesde
dc.subjectAutomated text analysisde
dc.subjectWord embeddingsde
dc.subjectCharlottesvillede
dc.subjectSozialpsychologiede
dc.subjectsoziale Problemede
dc.subjectinteraktive, elektronische Mediende
dc.subjectDigitale Mediende
dc.subjectStereotypde
dc.subjectöffentliche Meinungde
dc.subjectRassismusde
dc.subjectEinstellungsänderungde
dc.subjectDiskriminierungde
dc.subjectUSAde
dc.subjectVorurteilde
dc.subjectOnline-Mediende
dc.subject.ddc070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus & Verlagswesen
dc.subject.ddc320 Politik
dc.titleMedia Bias Towards African-americans Before and After the Charlottesville Rally
dc.typeConferencePaper
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitleProceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend173
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart164
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