Ethnicities: Media, Health, and Coping

This book explores the disjuncture between the idealized "globalizing" world and ethnic differences in communication, covering topics such as health issues, networks, media, and coping. It highlights key ethnicities including Hispanic, Native American, Middle Easterner, and Asian American populations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 138 pages
Publication date: 04 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In recent years, despite numerous writings on globalization and the merging of differences, powerful forces persist in exacerbating ethnic disparities in communication and other critical domains. To address this phenomenon, this volume conducts a research-based exploration of ethnic and racial issues, covering topics such as health concerns, networks, media, and coping strategies. It sheds light on significant ethnic groups, including the growing Hispanic population, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, and Asian Americans. This book delves into various topics, including the definition of ethnicity in communication scholarship, how Twitter has facilitated MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) cyber activism by fostering a collective indigenous identity, and media framing of Latin American players in Major League Baseball in the United States. Additionally, it employs online experiments and content analysis involving 185 participants of different races/ethnicities to examine bonding capital in coping and seeking support.

Ethnicities: Media, Health, and Coping is a vital resource for scholars and researchers in communication studies, race and ethnic studies, media and cultural studies, and sociology, as well as anyone with an interest in conducting research-based investigations into the communicative aspects of ethnic and racial issues. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032641096