Can the media create public opinion? A social-identity approach
Can the media create public opinion? A social-identity approach
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8721.00036
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发表时间：
1999-10-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Chapman, J
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作者：
Anastasio, PA;Rose, KC;Chapman, J
媒体在美国文化中仍然是一个强大的存在。它为人们提供世界和当地事件的新闻，它娱乐，甚至可以作为儿童的伴侣。因为它是一个对外的窗口，它的景观实际上可能成为人们的现实。因此，如果所提供的情况不能代表实际情况，就很有可能歪曲他们对世界的看法。事件例如，暴力行为在电视上的流行与侵略性的增加和对危险世界的印象不断升级有关，而过多地出现年轻和美丽的形象可能是饮食失调的一个因果因素。在这篇文章中，我们探讨的可能性，媒体也可以作为一个强大的创造者非常公众意见，它试图反映在其新闻。新闻播音员微妙的非语言暗示已经被证明会影响投票行为，媒体对黑人贫困比例的过度报道可能会减少白人对福利的支持。通过描绘一个人们的观点是基于他们的种族或人口群体成员的世界，媒体也可能微妙但有力地创造他们试图反映的观点。
The media remains a powerful presence in U.S. culture. It gives people news of world and local events, it entertains, and it may even function as a companion to children. Because it functions as a window to the outside world, what appears across its landscape actually may become people's reality. Thus, the potential for distorting their view of that world is high if the picture provided is unrepresentative of actual. events. For example, the prevalence of violent acts on television has been linked to increased aggression and escalating impressions of a dangerous world, and the overrepresentation of youth and beauty may be a causal factor of eating disorders. In this article, we explore the possibility that the media may also serve as a powerful creator of the very public opinions it seeks to reflect in its news. Subtle nonverbal cues of newscasters have been shown to influence voting behavior, and the media's overrepresentation of the proportion of blacks in poverty may decrease whites' support of welfare. By portraying a world in which people's opinions are based on their ethnic or demographic group membership, the media may also subtly but powerfully create the very opinions they seek to reflect.