Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News

Published:2022-05-16 Issue: Volume: Page:107769902210939
ISSN:1077-6990
Container-title:Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
language:en
Short-container-title:Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Author:

Medvedeva Yulia S.¹^ORCID,Leshner Glenn M.²

Affiliation:

1. Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2. The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

Abstract

Authors of the knowledge gap hypothesis predicted television’s potential to narrow the gaps in some circumstances. This online experiment aimed to bound the conditions that facilitate the leveling role of audiovisual news for a foreign-born audience ( N = 137) residing in the United States. Results showed that audiovisual news narrowed the gaps by improving learning for those who scored low on language or U.S. education and by attenuating improvements in learning for those with high language or education scores. Conversely, text news widened the gaps by sizable gains in learning for those with better language or more education.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Communication

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10776990221093930

Reference61 articles.

1. Alencar A., Deuze M. (2017). News for assimilation or integration? Examining the functions of news in shaping acculturation experiences of immigrants in the Netherlands and Spain. European Journal of Communication, 32(2), 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323117689993

2. Budiman A. (2020, August 20). Key findings about U.S. immigrants. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/

3. Ceci S. J., Papierno P. B. (2005). The rhetoric and reality of gap closing: When the “have-nots” gain but the “haves” gain even more. American Psychologist, 60(2), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.60.2.149

4. Chaffee S. H., Nass C. I., Yang S. M. (1990). The bridging role of television in immigrant political socialization. Human Communication Research, 17(2), 266–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1990.tb00233.x