US Media and Diversity

This volume fully illuminates the role of diversity in media representation, dissemination, and effects across various platforms, including social media. Against a backdrop of shifting demographics and increasing diversity, the book highlights the implications for media consumption patterns and explores the simultaneous rise in online hate.

Auteur

Travis L. Dixon (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is the David L. Swanson Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Dixon is a media effects scholar specializing in investigating the prevalence of stereotypes in the mass media and the impact of stereotypical imagery on audience members.

Dana Mastro (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently serving as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel. Her research documents representations of ethnic/racial groups in the media and examines the effects of exposure to these depictions on perceptions of self as well as interethnic/interracial dynamics in society and policy decision-making.