Abstract
Mass media serve as a vital communication resource as they can enable the realization of seven unique capabilities: “to be informed,” “to be secure,” “identity and belonging,” “voicing,” “identification and imitation,” “civil participation,” and “pleasure and entertainment.” The chapter discusses empirical findings based on a quantitative content analysis of 4225 interviews conducted with Arab-Israelis on the five Israeli national broadcast networks as well as a qualitative thematic analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals from the Arab-Israeli population. The chapter reveals that due to the systematic underrepresentation and negative misrepresentation of Arab-Israelis in the Israeli mass media, the seven media capabilities were hindered, negatively affecting community members’ opportunities.
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Schejter, A.M. et al. (2023). Mass Media: The Case of Israeli Broadcast Media and Arab-Israelis. In: Digital Capabilities. Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22930-5_3
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