Travis Dixon

Travis Lemar Dixon is an African-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,[1][2] as well as audiences' reception of rap music.[3]

Travis L. Dixon
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1992)
University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1998)
Known forWork on racial bias in criminal news in the United States
AwardsNational Communication Association top article award . & First Black Inductee, International Communication Association Fellows []
Scientific career
FieldsCommunication studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisOverrepresentation and underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as lawbreakers on television news (1998)

References
  1. Wurth, Julie (2015-06-23). "Study: Media quicker to label Muslims than whites as terrorists". The News-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  2. "News can affect stereotyping, study says". UPI. 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  3. Dreisinger, Baz (2005-07-17). "Insight vs. incite". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-08-19.


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