Full Description
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority in the United States comprising nearly 3 percent of the population, yet they are rarely given coverage in the U.S. media, as this book demonstrates. This book, written by an 11-year reporter of The Washington Post who is now an Associate Dean at Ithaca College, is broad in scope and studies the relationship between mass media and this important minority, including: 1) examines the scope and type of coverage afforded Asian Americans in mainstream newspapers through a content analysis of twenty leading newspapers for the year March 1, 1994 to February 28, 1995; 2) examines the opinions of Asian Americans who work in print, radio, and television media both in mainstream media and specialized Asian American media, through a survey asking their negative and positive experiences on the job as related to their ethnicity, and their opnions on how well the media cover Asian Americans; and 3) an historical examination of Asian Americans and media treatment of Asian Americans, and specialized publications serving Asian Americans. No other book has looked at media coverage of Asian Americans as in-depth as this fascinating account of how attitudes towards Asian Americans are shaped in America through questionable coverage of this diverse segment of the population.
Contents
Acknowledgments; Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Overview; Definition of Terms; Asian Americans' Use of Media; Asian Americans in the Media Workforce; Asian American Workforce at Newspapers; Asian American Workforce in Radio and Television; Chapter 2: History of Asian American Publications; The Chinese Press; The Japanese Press; The Korean press; The Filipino Press; The Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian Press; The Asian Indian Press; The Pacific Islander Press; Leading Twenty Asian Ethnic Publications; Publications of the Asian American Panethnicity Movement; Chapter 3: Related Studies; Theoretical Foundations of the Book; Previous Studies on Asian Americans that Relate to the Theoretical Foundations; Research Questions of the Book; Summary; Chapter 4: Method; Operational Plan; Content Analysis of Twenty Leading Newspapers; Survey of Five Hundred Asian American Journalists; Survey of the Editors of the Twenty Leading Asian American Publications; Census Data; Personnel Survey of the Editors of the Twenty Mainstream Newspapers of the Content Analysis; Chapter 5: Results and Discussion; Overview; Contents Analysis; Survey; Census and Survey Data; Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusion; Overview; Key Findings; Other Important Findings; Theoretical Implications; Implications for Future Research; Concluding Remarks; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
