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This Flash Eurobarometer provides an overview of European citizens’ attitudes towards social media. It examines attitudes towards key themes, such as: (1) information habits and sources for social and political […]
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Sudden or controversial changes to a social media platform can trigger a “stampede,” or the mass exodus of users to alternative sites. In this interview, media scholar Margaret Yee Man Ng explores previous stampedes, how they transformed the digital landscape, and the long-term implications for communities and trusted information networks online.
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Questions surrounding trust in news media have preoccupied scholars for almost a century. Based on a review of interdisciplinary literature, this paper provides an overview of the evolution of conceptions […]
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This article provides a discussion of some of the recent research on media trust focusing on arguments for why media trust matters. What are the arguments for why trust is […]
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Abstract Trust in the media has become an increasingly important issue in communication research. Traditional credibility research and modern media skepticism studies have bred a multiplicity of empirical findings illustrating […]
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To explain the participatory effects of news exposure, communication scholars have long relied upon the “virtuous circle” framework of media use and civic participation. That is, news consumption makes people […]
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The dimensions that individuals apply in evaluating the trustworthiness or credibility of news media bear great theoretical and practical relevance. In previous research, however, there is no standardized scale for […]
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An alarming number of Americans no longer trust the media to report the news fairly—a serious problem in a democracy that depends so much on news organizations to inform its […]
