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Travis Dixon's Degrees
- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Travis Lemar Dixon is an American media studies scholar and Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is known for researching racial and religious stereotyping in television news in the United States, as well as audiences' reception of rap music.
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- Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as Lawbreakers on Television News (2000) (587)
- Race and the Misrepresentation of Victimization on Local Television News (2000) (281)
- Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous black criminal. (2005) (260)
- Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008) (254)
- Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement (2006) (172)
- The Portrayal of Race and Crime on Television Network News (2003) (157)
- The Changing Misrepresentation of Race and Crime on Network and Cable News (2015) (151)
- Controversial Rap Themes, Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos (2009) (131)
- Priming Crime and Activating Blackness: Understanding the Psychological Impact of the Overrepresentation of Blacks as Lawbreakers on Television News (2007) (128)
- Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008) (122)
- Black Criminals and White Officers: The Effects of Racially Misrepresenting Law Breakers and Law Defenders on Television News (2007) (107)
- The Representation of Juvenile Offenders by Race on Los Angeles Area Television News (2006) (99)
- Good Guys Are Still Always in White? Positive Change and Continued Misrepresentation of Race and Crime on Local Television News (2017) (81)
- The Influence of Race in Police–Civilian Interactions: A Content Analysis of Videotaped Interactions Taken During Cincinnati Police Traffic Stops (2008) (71)
- Schemas as Average Conceptions: Skin Tone, Television News Exposure, and Culpability Judgments (2006) (66)
- Television News, Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity, and the Depiction of Race (2002) (64)
- Rap music videos and African American women's body image: the moderating role of ethnic identity. (2009) (63)
- Body Surveillance on Instagram: Examining the Role of Selfie Feedback Investment in Young Adult Women’s Body Image Concerns (2019) (63)
- Self-Esteem, Misogyny and Afrocentricity: An Examination of the Relationship between Rap Music Consumption and African American Perceptions (2009) (52)
- News on the Net (2008) (52)
- Female Body Image as a Function of Themes in Rap Music Videos: A Content Analysis (2010) (51)
- Viewer Ethnicity Matters: Black Crime in TV News and Its Impact on Decisions Regarding Public Policy (2015) (37)
- Obscenity Law and Sexually Explicit Rap Music: Understanding the Effects of Sex, Attitudes, and Beliefs (1997) (33)
- Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati (2009) (31)
- Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies (2020) (26)
- A Social Cognitive Approach to Studying Racial Stereotyping in the Mass Media (2001) (22)
- Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: Year Three Evaluation Report (2006) (20)
- Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving Portrayals of Crime News and Blacks in a Major Market (2008) (18)
- Who is the victim here? (2008) (17)
- A Changing View (2008) (17)
- A Comparative Content Analysis of Anti- and Prosocial Rap Lyrical Themes Found on Traditional and New Media Outlets (2017) (14)
- Media Constructions of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (2019) (14)
- The Impact of Stereotypical and Counter‐Stereotypical News on Viewer Perceptions of Blacks and Lations: An Exploratory Study (2007) (10)
- Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory (2019) (10)
- Social Cognition and Racial Stereotyping in Television: Consequences for Transculturalism (2001) (10)
- Perspectives 106 RAP MUSIC AND RAP AUDIENCES : CONTROVERSIAL THEMES , PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND POLITICAL RESISTANCE (2004) (9)
- Teaching You to Love Fear: Television News and Racial Stereotypes in a Punishing Democracy (2011) (8)
- The Portrayal of Race Online: A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in a New (2009) (7)
- White News, Incognizant Racism, and News Production Biases (2003) (6)
- Online News and Race: A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in a New Media Environment (2008) (6)
- Understanding How the Internet and Social Media Accelerate Racial Stereotyping and Social Division: The Socially Mediated Stereotyping Model (2016) (6)
- How News Frames Prime Non-Whites as Social Problems (2018) (4)
- Current Images in Rap Music: A Content Analysis (2007) (3)
- Media Stereotypes (2019) (2)
- Black Criminality 2.0: the Persistence of Stereotypes in the 21st Century (2019) (1)
- Rap Music and Rap Audiences Revisited (2017) (1)
- Race And Gender in Electronic Media (2020) (1)
- An examination of how rap and R&B music videos influence African American self identity (2007) (1)
- Race and News Revisited (2012) (1)
- Acknowledgments to Referees (2020) (0)
- News on the Net: Internet News Credibility and Racial Stereotypes (2006) (0)
- Efforts to Improve Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: (2007) (0)
- Body Surveillance on Instagram: Examining the Role of Selfie Feedback Investment in Young Adult Women’s Body Image Concerns (2019) (0)
- The Barack Benefit? A Content Analysis of How News Coverage of America’s First African American Presidential Family Alters the Overall Presentation of Blacks in News (2022) (0)
- Black Civilian Treatment by White Officers During Videotaped Traffic Stops: How Extensive Policing Might Increase Racial Tension & Police Distrust (2009) (0)
- Perceived Media News Credibility Measure (2014) (0)
- Race, Rap, and Perception: An Examination of the Effects of Artists Race on Participant Endorsement of Ethnic Blame (2009) (0)
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