A5040386086- Social Media and Politics
- Media Influence and Health
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Media Studies and Communication
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- South Asian Cinema and Culture
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Cultural Differences and Values
Syracuse University
2021-2024
Westinghouse Electric (United States)
2023
Texas A&M University
2012-2022
Emerson College
2021
University of Iowa
2021
University of Maryland, College Park
2021
Mitchell Institute
2007-2018
Pennsylvania State University
2003-2008
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2007
Park University
2003
This study focuses on the role of media in facilitating and inhibiting accessibility stereotypes primed by race-related news stories. Specifically, it examines experimentally effects two strategies for reducing stereotype accessibility: an audience-centered approach that explicitly instructs audiences to be critical consumers, a goal literacy training; message-centered using stereo-type-disconfirming, counter-stereotypical Participants viewed either or control video before reading...
This study examines how exposure to media characters of color shapes viewers’ opinions race-targeted policies. Exemplar-based information processing, attribution theory, and heuristic policy decision-making formed the theoretical foundation for study. A 2 × factorial experiment ( N = 363) exposed participants stereotypical or counterstereotypical exemplars representing in-group (Whites) out-group (Blacks). The revealed that African American compared counter-stereotypical ones influenced...
This article provides a review of the research record on potential for media literacy education to intervene in media's influence racial and ethnic stereotypes, explores theoretical concepts that underlie these efforts. It situates theory practice within particular emphases field synthesizes qualitative quantitative studies. Quantitative effect training mediated counterstereotypes reducing racial/ethnic prejudice is described. In addition, we report data from an ongoing study early...
Direct and indirect social identity threats can influence stigmatized individuals to seek management strategies that restore a positive sense of identity. The current study examined the effects media representations self-reported experiences discrimination on Muslim American students’ strategies. Results revealed students who viewed negative their religious ingroup, relative control video, were less likely desire acceptance by other Americans more avoid interactions with majority members....
Mindfulness is defined as non-judgmental awareness in the present lived experience. Researchers find that mindfulness training has benefits such enhanced positive emotions, reduced stress and increased well-being. However, empirical research on effectiveness of curricula emerging adults educational settings sparse. The study takes a step towards filling this gap by examining role communication improving coping among young people. Specifically, used mixed methods approach combining...
Abstract In this essay, we advance the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging two major subfields communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects scholarship and critical cultural communication. is situated within dominant mode social scientific theorizing draws on four key interrelated concepts from communication: power, intersectionality, context, agency. advocates for greater reflexivity, rigor, nuance in about better respond complexity dynamicity...
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to captivate the collective imagination through latest generation of generative AI models such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, dehumanizing harmful features technology industry that have plagued it since its inception only seem deepen intensify. Far from a “glitch” or unintentional error, these endemic issues are function interlocking systems oppression upon which is built. Using analytical framework “Empire,” this paper demonstrates we live not simply in...
This research examines the role of media literacy training and counter-stereotypical news stories in prejudice reduction. Research participants read either stereotypical or after exposure to a video control video. After this, they completed paper-and-pencil questionnaire that included Likert-type scales feeling-thermometer ratings about their feelings toward African Americans, Asian-Indians, Caucasian-Americans. The findings reveal hostile is more likely be expressed African-Americans...
This paper explores how White viewers' perceived portrayals of African-Americans and Latino-Americans on TV influence their real-world feelings beliefs about these outgroups, which in turn affect support for race-targeted policies. A computer-based survey (N=323) included measures relating to perceptions racial/ethnic groups television, stereotypical beliefs, prejudicial feelings, affirmative action The affective-cognitive model policy reasoning presented this extends improves upon prior...
Two studies examined the effects of reliance on direct and media-based contact for information about Muslims Americans' stereotypic beliefs negative emotions toward support public policies harming domestically internationally. Results revealed that media was positively associated with beliefs, emotions, harmful policies. Reliance produced opposite results. from a three-wave longitudinal design significantly predict changes in which then civil restrictions Muslim Americans. We discuss...
This article argues that exposure to admirable media celebrities from racial/ethnic outgroups is an effective, proactive, and viable strategy for prejudice reduction intergroup harmony. It uses mediated contact exemplification theories demonstrate reading news stories about likable outgroup personalities who serve as counter‐stereotypic exemplars can subtly modify racial attitudes, which are malleable context‐sensitive. Specifically, results a between‐participants experiment (N = 88) show...
Politicians within the United States and across many Western societies are concerned about extent to which Muslims successfully integrating their countries. The present research examined how interpersonal (discrimination) mediated (negative news coverage of Muslims) social identity threats dynamically change young Muslim Americans' strength identification as American Muslim, well trust in U.S. government. Data from a three-wave longitudinal survey show that Time 1, negative (but not...
Abstract Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in Global North and serving economic interests platform capitalism, systematically erase voices subaltern margins South Southern inhabiting North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative creating access for empowering through data exchanged on global free market, hegemonic Science processes co-opt epistemologies, working to create reproduce new enclosures extraction that serve...