| Travis L. Dixon | |
| Fields: | Communication studies |
| Workplaces: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Education: | University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1992) University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1998) |
| Thesis Title: | Overrepresentation and underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as lawbreakers on television news |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55488703 |
| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
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| 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 https://www.icahdq.org/general/custom.asp?page=Fellows |
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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]