Annotated Bibliography

Media Influence and Bias

By: Shandi Turner

Date: 3/25/2019

SIEGEL, DAVID A. "Social Networks and the Mass Media." The American Political Science Review, vol.

107, no. 4, 2013, pp. 786-805. ProQuest,

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ccountid=10163, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055413000452.

This article talks about how social media and mass media influences one’s behavior. It discusses

how social media plays a role in the behavior a person has by trying to be like other people so

those people like them. Some believe this risk is bias because of the effects of the research. Can

social networks amplify the effects of media bias? Absolutely it can and this article discusses this

aspect. Having different media outlets can effect this as well as each outlet can report on the

topic but can report it differently.

Bissell, Kim, and Scott Parrott. "Prejudice: The Role of the Media in the Development of Social

Bias." Journalism and Communication Monographs, vol. 15, no. 4, 2013, pp. 219-270. ProQuest,

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ccountid=10163.

This article discusses how race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and weight (body shape)

play a role in how we are bias against each other. It discusses how attitude helps play a role in the

bias we have against each other. How we view each other is bias in itself. Are we being prejudice

against each other when we look at someone and think wow they have gained weight or are they

black or white? Media helps with this bias behavior as they can take an event that was not meant

to be about black and white or male or female and turn it into just that situation. One’s race and

sexuality is a major issues in todays society when it comes to media bias.

Vraga, Emily K., Melissa Tully, and Hernando Rojas. "Media Literacy Training Reduces Perception of

Bias." Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, 2009, pp. 68-81. ProQuest,

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countid=10163.

This article talks about how a hostile media perceptions are problematic in a democratic society. It

discusses how hostile interpretations can be reduced by improving how a person understands the

news and how it is being addressed. It talks about how the media covers contents and how the

content is received. One’s strength in a situation is another way to see it one way when others see

it a different way. Being involved in a specific subject helps with one’s understanding of that

situation. Having a better understanding and seeing everyone’s point of view can help reduce the

bias unfortunately the media doesn’t show this they show what they feel is needed to get attention.

Albarqouni, Loai N., José López-López A., and Julian P. T. Higgins. "Indirect Evidence of Reporting Biases

was found in a Survey of Medical Research Studies." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 83, 2017,

pp. 57-64. ProQuest,

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ccountid=10163, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.11.013.

This article discusses how medical research and reporting those findings can be bias and lead to

misconstrued reports. In not telling the findings in their entirety can lead to research misconduct

and lead some to distrust the scientific integrity. Report these bias finding can impact a scientic

study. By nor reporting the truth can lead some to believe the study was bias. This bias can be

direct or indirectly influenced. Reporting bias is important in the findings to show how the

conclusions were determined and to show that the findings can go either way. In reading this

source I found it to be interesting but not a lot of detail was discussed.

Weitzer, Ronald, and Steven A. Tuch. "Racially Biased Policing: Determinants of Citizen

Perceptions*." Social Forces, vol. 83, no. 3, 2005, pp. 1009-1030. ProQuest,

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countid=10163, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sof.2005.0050.

This article discusses how racial profiling is conducted in the United States. And about the attention

of racial bias and police. It discusses how different ethnicity groups are profiled by the police and

media coverage of that profile. This article talks about how they are profiled by the neighborhood

they live in, the color of their skin and how they act. Race is considered one of the top predictors

of attitude towards police. Some people don’t trust the police because they feel they are racist over

their race group. In the past on the media it has been shown to be a problem in the US but what

they don’t show is the policing actually helping those from all ethnicity groups.

Jones, Eric K. ""all Lies Matter!": Revealing Misleading Information in Media Stories about Police

Brutality." Multicultural Education, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 41-46. ProQuest,

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ccountid=10163.

This article talks about how race has become a very bias thing in the media from the time “Black

Lives Matter” started up after the media reports of police shooting an unarmed black man. In this

aspect it was made out to be that only black lives matter not all lives when in fact all lives matter.

This was all shown on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and all news outlets and it stirred up riots all

over the country. Since this happened now when you see something on a media outlet it is

immediately viewed as a race bias because even if the young man or woman is not unarmed the

media twists it and you don’t see they whole dilemma just what they feel will get the attention of

the viewers which causes an even bigger issue at the end of the day.
Delgado-Rodriguez, M., and J. Llorca. "Bias." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 58,

no. 8, 2004, pp. 635. ProQuest,

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ccountid=10163, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2003.008466.

This article discusses what bias is and how it can affect us. It discusses how bias can be classified

as different things and that classification can be determined. The classifications are determined by

the stages of research. There are different names of bias as well as different groups of bias and

each has its on classification of bias depending on the study of that subject.

"UH Study Finds News Media may Influence Racial Bias." Targeted News Service, May 28, 2015.

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This article discusses how the media can influence racial bias of a situation. It talks about how a long-

term exposure to the news can influence bias, if someone watches the news in their country and

sees how things work there and then watch the news for another country and see things are

different they might be bias to how things are done in the other country as it is not how things

are done in their country. This can lead to issues if that person comes to that country to visit. It

also talks about how African-Americans are represented as criminals just because of the color of

their skin based on crime rates.