Research Example #2

Dunaway, Johanna, Robert K. Goidel,  Ashley Kirzinger, and Betina Cutaia Wilkinson. “Rebuilding or Intruding? Media Coverage and Public Opinion on Latino Immigration in Post-Katrina Louisiana”.  Social Science Quarterly. Vol.92(4). Dec. 2011. pp 917-937.

This article covers topics to better understand the public opinions of immigration regarding the studies of different aspects, be it political, geographic and media backgrounds. They used post-Katrina Latino immigrant migration to Louisiana as an opportunity to study these relationships. They use survey data and context analysis of news coverage to examine the influence of news exposure on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration. It concluded that local news coverage of immigration increases awareness and wide spread concern about immigration, and heightened news exposure increases perceptions about personal interactions with Spanish-speaking populations. I find this research to be something that can continue into my search for looking for citations for my research question, which is “How does the media’s portrayal of immigrants affect their own perception of self-identity?” because a persons self-identity can be affected by other people’s opinions, especially if they are surrounded by those opinions constantly in the media. I am wanting to try to incorporate  the self-identity of immigrants, the media’s perception of immigrants, and how the media affects the immigrants self-identity.

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