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Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic DiscourseOpen Materials

Philipp Müllera Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;b Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Chung-Hong Chanb Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;c Department of Computational Social Science, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, GermanyView further author information
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Katharina Ludwiga Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;b Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyView further author information
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Rainer Freudenthalera Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;b Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyView further author information
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Hartmut Wesslera Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;b Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyView further author information
Pages 396-414 | Published online: 21 Mar 2023

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