Racial Mediation in the Coverage of Candidates' Political Viability: A Comparison of Approaches.
This article proposes a theory of racial mediation and examines how candidate race affects media coverage of political viability. Using two different types of content analysis—manual and automated—the article assesses print media coverage of white and visible minority candidates in the 2008 Canadian...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 963 - 985 |
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May2015
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