Ethnocentric frames across race : the media's role in activating ethnocentrism and public support for conflict abroad.

Ethnocentrism;Media framing;Ethnocentric framing;Ethnocentrism across race;Support for war;Muslims

Christopher William Ledford

University:University of Louisville

Department:Political Science

关键词: Ethnocentrism;    Media framing;    Ethnocentric framing;    Ethnocentrism across race;    Support for war;    Muslims;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

This study revisits Kinder's and Kam's (2007; 2009) studies that providedpolitical scientists with a theoretical and operational definition of ethnocentrism-ourtendency to partition the world into in-groups and out-groups. They assert that theactivation of ethnocentrism hinges on elite framing and issue-attention. In addition, theyhave shown whites to be more ethnocentric than blacks, generally. This thesis beginswith, and after conducting a framing experiment, accepts the hypothesis that the mediaframe news ethnocentrically and that frames have a greater effect on activatingethnocentrism, fear, and support for war across white Americans than black Americans.Furthermore, my empirical analysis of ethnocentrism's effects on support for war, acrossrace and over time, demonstrates that ethnocentrism is significant in driving support forwar (across white individuals) at its onset, but I suggest that ethnocentric considerationsare supplanted over time by considerations of the costs, implications of war, anddecreasing interest.