Figueroa-Caballero and Mastro: Does News Coverage Promote the Criminalization of Undocumented Immigrants?

The National Communication Association’s press room reports on a recent article in Communication Monographs by Andrea Figueroa-Caballero, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri and former Ph.D. student at UCSB’s Dept. of Communication, and Dana Mastro, Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Communication, UCSB.  Their study exposed participants to a manipulated immigrant crime news story that portrayed White and Latino suspects and differing levels of threat.  See https://www.natcom.org/press-room/does-news-coverage-promote-criminalization-undocumented-immigrants and https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/media-criminalization-undocumented-immigrants