Kushnirovich Nonna, Lissitsa Sabina
Ruppin Academic Center, Department of Economics and Management, Emek-Hefer 4025000, Israel.
School of Communication, Ariel University, Ariel 407000, Israel.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Mar 13;14(3):232. doi: 10.3390/bs14030232.
This paper examines the relationships between the consumption of 'bad' or 'good' digital economic news and attitudes toward immigrant and ethnic minorities during the crisis that developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study considered attitudes toward two minority groups in Israel: immigrant citizens from English-speaking countries, and Israeli Palestinian citizens, an ethnic minority. The data were collected through an online survey of 866 respondents, who were members of the majority population group. The study found that, during the global crisis, exposure to bad digital news was associated with more positive attitudes toward both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged minority groups. Moreover, in times of global crisis, people focused mostly on local rather than global digital news. In contrast to the idea of Intergroup Threat Theory, the study revealed that feelings of economic threat during the global crisis engendered higher cohesion between different population groups, and more positive attitudes toward minorities. In times of crisis, bad news for the economy brings good news for social solidarity-people tend to rally around the flag; this phenomenon even occurs between groups engaged in years-long, protracted conflict.
本文探讨了在新冠疫情期间出现的危机中，“负面”或“正面”数字经济新闻的消费与对移民和少数族裔态度之间的关系。该研究考察了以色列对两个少数群体的态度：来自英语国家的移民公民，以及作为少数族裔的以色列巴勒斯坦公民。数据通过对866名受访者进行在线调查收集，这些受访者均为多数人口群体的成员。研究发现，在全球危机期间，接触负面数字新闻与对弱势群体和非弱势群体的更积极态度相关。此外，在全球危机时期，人们主要关注本地而非全球数字新闻。与群体间威胁理论的观点相反，该研究表明，全球危机期间的经济威胁感增强了不同人群之间的凝聚力，以及对少数族裔更积极的态度。在危机时期，经济方面的坏消息给社会团结带来了好消息——人们往往会团结在国旗周围；这种现象甚至发生在长期陷入冲突的群体之间。
