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Fear and Misperception of Los Angeles Urban Space

A Spatial-Statistical Study of Communication-Shaped Mental Maps

SORIN MATEI

SANDRA J. BALL-ROKEACH

JACK LINCHUAN QIU

Imagining urban space as being comfortable or fearful is studied as an effect of people's connections to their residential area communication infrastructure. Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling and spatial-statistical methods are used to process 215 mental maps obtained from respondents to a multilingual survey of seven ethnically marked residential communities of Los Angeles. Spatial-statistical analyses reveal that fear perceptions of Los Angeles urban space are not associated with commonly expected causes of fear, such as high crime victimization likelihood. The main source of discomfort seems to be presence of non-White and non-Asian populations. Respondents more strongly connected to television and interpersonal communication channels are relatively more fearful of these populations than those less strongly connected. Theoretical, methodological, and community-building policy implications are discussed.

Communication Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, 429-463 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/009365001028004004
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