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The sustainability of the news media is a priority for democratic societies; yet, in the hypercompetitive digital world, they are losing relevance and face the forbidding challenge of public disengagement […]
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This study investigates whether news media coverage of leaked government documents can influence citizen trust in the government agencies and the media coverage of the leaks using the rare instance […]
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In this high-choice media landscape, we witness people avoiding news to substantial degrees. This avoidance behavior raises critical questions about its implications for informed citizenship and the normative role of […]
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This study examined how social media influencers (SMIs) affected news media trust in the U.S. SMI followers reported more trust than non-followers even as they reported high levels of trust […]
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Hybrid media systems have reconfigured online journalism and mass communication such that people can engage more easily in multi-directional discourse about the norms of science. We investigate this reconfiguration with […]
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This study compares the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI)-aided versus human-assisted fact-checking for different types of news, namely hard and soft news. To this end, an online experiment was carried […]
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The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020
Using data from the 2012–2020 European Social Survey and Schwartz’s theory of basic values, this article maps the values of tech-workers, in order to assess and understand their uniqueness and […]
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Although scholars have learned much about the online information environment in recent years, there is scant evidence on the relationship between pre-existing political network diversity and trust in political content […]
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How the Engagement Journalism Movement Is Changing Political News Content: An Applied-Research Study
Our multi-methodological, multi-university team was hired to evaluate whether news outlets participating in substantive training in journalism engagement and solutions-oriented practices were also changing their content. Analyzing a large dataset […]
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Historically, the Black press has primarily targeted the African American audience, yet the increased accessibility of these outlets via digital media raises the question of who comprises the Black press […]
