Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research

Johnson, Melissa

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2009.01356.x

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“…Diasporic media can also be called transnational media or migrant media. This media can be attributed to media of people displaced from their homeland (Johnson, 2010, Kosnick, 2007Sun, 2005;Georgiou, Bailey and Harindranath, 2007).…”

Section: Social Identity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing Indian, Being Indian: Diaspora, Identity, and Ethnic Media

Somani

Guo

2017

Howard Journal of Communications

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Section: Social Identity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing Indian, Being Indian: Diaspora, Identity, and Ethnic Media

Somani

Guo

2017

Howard Journal of Communications

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“…Two functions of the self-categorization process are reducing uncertainty and improving status by identifying with a certain group (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987). In communication, prototypes become the shorthand to portray group membership, otherwise defined as representations of a social category (Johnson, 2010). Images on ethnic organization websites can serve as prototypes for that group.…”

Section: Self-categorization Theory and Digital Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Museum Websites, Cultural Projection, and Self-Categorization Concepts

Johnson

Sink

2015

Howard Journal of Communications

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This qualitative research features in-depth interviews along with observations of respondents' navigation of African American and Latino museum websites. Respondents self-identified as of African American, Latino, or White cultural heritage and ranged in age from the late teens to over 50. Interviewees noted the organizations' projection of their cultures to non-group members as well as to racial or ethnic group members. Respondents who interacted with the ethnic digital media also demonstrated the application of the self-categorization process, including the concepts of prototypes, norms, accessibility and fit. The authors provide suggestions for expanding dimensions of these concepts beyond the dichotomous measures typically found in the self-categorization literature. In addition, concepts from self-categorization and cultural projection theories are integrated and their usefulness to digital communication scholars is explicated. Besides these contributions to communication methodology and theory, the study also suggests practical considerations for ethnic organization website producers.Organizations associated with particular racial and ethnic groups have special challenges in digital communication. They must use visuals not only to convey messages about their organizations, but about people, as well. These organizations' websites have functional purposes but also project images about cultural groups in the online environment. This is similar to the role that digital, print, and broadcast ethnic media have in society.

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“…Many scholars notice a growth in the ethnic media market in the US and Western Europe (Deuze, 2006;Johnson, 2010;Weber-Menges, 2006). As will be shown later in this paper, in recent years the Austrian ethnic media market has grown as well.…”

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‘The life of a new generation’: Content, values and mainstream media perception of transcultural ethnic media – An Austrian case

Brantner¹,

Herczeg²

2013

Communications - The European Journal of Communication Research

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This paper deals with transcultural ethnic media, that is, ethnic media with at least two additional fundamental benefits: (1) They provide space for and aim at different ethnic communities and (2) connect them to the major society. Additionally, they include inter-and transcultural content and provide (semi-)professional journalism. Content analyses with particular focus on the conveyed values as well as the perception of such a magazine -biber, published in Vienna, Austria -by traditional print media reveal that in reporting on issues not covered by mainstream media, transcultural magazines promote counter-public spheres on the one hand. On the other hand, they offer the majority society insights into ethnic communities. Mainstream media report much more frequently about such a transcultural magazine than about 'classic' ethnic media, evaluate it positively and see it as an important contribution to the media landscape. Overall, transcultural media play an important role in gaining bridging social capital.

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Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research

Cited by 39 publications

References 54 publications

Seeing Indian, Being Indian: Diaspora, Identity, and Ethnic Media

Seeing Indian, Being Indian: Diaspora, Identity, and Ethnic Media

Ethnic Museum Websites, Cultural Projection, and Self-Categorization Concepts

‘The life of a new generation’: Content, values and mainstream media perception of transcultural ethnic media – An Austrian case

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