Mediating the Lives and Experiences of Latino Immigrants: Ethnic Media as a Meaning System

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

The communication discipline has long been concerned with how media affect people’s sense-making and perceptions of their local environments. Ethnically targeted media, however, rarely feature in these research efforts. This panel presents four investigations of Latino immigrants’ media connections in Los Angeles communities, and their negotiations of these mediated meanings across a range of contexts, including advertising health-related information, political mobilization, community belonging, and identity formation.

Sub Unit

• Latina/Latino Communication Studies Division

Chair

• Sandra Ball-Rokeach, University of Southern California

Session Organizer

• Vikki Sara Katz, University of Southern California