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

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 s...

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Published in:Journalism & mass communication quarterly 2023-06, Vol.100 (2), p.416-437
Main Authors: Medvedeva, Yulia S., Leshner, Glenn M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Immigrants
Language proficiency
Learning
Moderation
News
Television
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1077-6990
2161-430X
DOI:10.1177/10776990221093930