Abstract

In 2015 and 2016, the word, “refugee,” filled newspaper headlines. While refugees have received considerable media attention, few recent scholarly works address local level news coverage in the United States. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, we find that local news coverage of both local stories and national/international news is largely receptive toward refugees. However, we find variation across local contexts that receive the most and the fewest refugees, lending support to the role that intergroup contact plays in media reporting.

中文翻译：

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接受还是限制性：美国本地难民新闻报道的比较分析

摘要

在2015年和2016年，报纸头条上充斥着“难民”一词。尽管难民引起了媒体的广泛关注，但最近的学术著作很少涉及美国的地方新闻报道。使用定量和定性分析，我们发现本地新闻对本地故事和国家/国际新闻的报道在很大程度上都可以接受难民。但是，我们发现在接收最多和最少难民的地方环境中存在差异，这为团体间联系在媒体报道中所扮演的角色提供了支持。