News Consumption in the Case of the Garifuna People: Reaching the Audience or Not?
Keywords:
News, social media, GarifunaAbstract
The purpose of this research is to understand how social media is affecting the news consumption of minority cultures, both within and outside the U.S. Using natives of Central America with ancestral roots in Africa as research subjects, this research explores how the Garifuna culture experiences social media and how these media influence news consumption and perceptions. Using a grounded theory approach, in-depth interviews were conducted in the United States and Honduras. The results of those interviews indicate that media can aid individuals within the Garifuna culture to perceive they have gained some knowledge of world news, yet in actuality, this knowledge is superficial at best.
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Dimmick, J., Chen, Y., & Li, Z. (2004). Competition between the Internet and traditional news media: The gratification-opportunities niche dimension. The Journal of Media Economics, 17(1), 19-33.
Dixon, T. L., & Azocar, C. L. (2006). The representation of juvenile offenders by race on Los Angeles area television news. The Howard Journal of Communications, 17(2), 143-161. DOI: 10.1080/10646170600656896
Dutta-Bergman, M. J. (2004). Complementarity in consumption of news types across traditional and new media. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 48(1), 41-60.
Gerbner, G., & Gross, L. (1976). Living with television: The violence profile. Journal of Communication, 26(2). 172-199.
Gillespie, M. (2006). Transnational television audiences after September 11. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(6), 903-921.
Ha, L., & Fang, L. (2012). Internet experience and time displacement of traditional news media use: An application of the theory of the niche. Telematics and Informatics, 29(2), 177-186.
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Johnson, J. L. & Callahan, C. (2013). Minority Cultures and Social Media: Magnifying Garifuna. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 42(4), 319-339.
Matthei, L. M. & Smith, D. A. (2008). Flexible ethnic identity, adaptation, survival, resistance: The Garifuna in the world-system. Social Identities, 14 (2). 215-232.
Palmgreen, P., Wenner, L. A., & Rayburn, J. D. (1980). Relations between gratifications sought and obtained: A study of television news. Communication Research, 7(2), 161-192.
Rodríguez, I. (2007). Telling stories of Latino population growth in the United States: Narratives of inter-ethnic conflict in the mainstream, Latino and African-American press. Journalism, 8(5). 573-590. DOI: 10.1177/1464884907081054
Ruggiero, T. E. (2000). Uses and gratifications theory in the 21st century. Mass Communication and Society, 3(1), 3-37.
Stempel, G. H., Hargrove, T., & Bernt, J. P. (2000). Relation of growth of use of the Internet to changes in media use from 1995 to 1999. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(1). 71-79.
Turan, A. H., Colakoglu, S., & Colakoglu, B. E. (2009). Perceptional differences of international news: Western media influence on non-Western media. China Media Research, 5(2), 55-63.
Vargas, L. (2000). Genderizing Latino news: An analysis of a local newspaper’s coverage of Latino current affairs. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 17(3). 261-293.
Wei-Na, L., & Tse, D. K. (1994). Changing media consumption in a new home: Acculturation patterns among Hong Kong immigrants to Canada. Journal of Advertising, 23(1). 57-70.
Yi, X., & Sarvary, M. (2007). News consumption and media bias. Marketing Science, 26(5). 611-628.
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