Travis Dixon

Travis L. Dixon
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1992) University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1998)
Known for	Work on racial bias in criminal news in the United States
Awards	National Communication Association top article award . & First Black Inductee, International Communication Association Fellows [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Communication studies
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis	Overrepresentation and underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as lawbreakers on television news (1998)

Travis Lemar Dixon is an 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]

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.

External links

• Faculty page
• Travis Dixon publications indexed by Google Scholar