1. News Selection and Effects in Coverage about Immigrants.
- Author
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Ruhrmann, Georg and Sommer, Denise
- Abstract
This paper presents a new approach to the study of media and immigration. For the first time, psychological variables investigated in current experimental research, particularly the motivational concept of minimal and maximal goals (Brendl & Higgings, 1996), are operationalized in content analyses and measured in a medial context. Television news from four major German television stations as well as newspaper articles by two prestige papers within a one year period are examined. Content analyses are supposed to replicate prior findings and to build the data basis for cluster analyses used to specify typical formal and plot structures of news reports about immigrants. These reports are shown to a representative sample of German television viewers in order to learn more about recipients' cognitive and affective processing of this information. Consequently, media effects can be measured on a direct behavioral level including attitude formation as well as viewers' habits and behavioral routines. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2004