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Happiness and surprise are associated with worse truth discernment of COVID-19 headlines among social media users in Nigeria
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 4 (2021), 37 pp.
"Do emotions we experience after reading headlines help us discern true from false information or cloud our judgement? Understanding whether emotions are associated with distinguishing truth from fiction and sharing information has implications for interventions designed to curb the spread of misinf
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Trust and Communication: Foundations of Interconnectivity
Berlin; Bern; Wien: Peter Lang (2021), 212 pp.
"In today’s global and digitalized world, the investigation of relational trust as part of social connections has remained a popular and interdisciplinary academic topic. This book explores the idea of trust as a basic type of information processing that might be as old as human existence but has
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A Narrative Solution: The Relationship Between Solutions Journalism, Narrative Transportation, and News Trust
Journalism, volume 22, issue 10 (2021), pp. 2511–2530
"Lack of trust is a paramount problem facing journalism. Solutions reporting, which focuses on credible responses to societal problems, could help improve news trust. In addition, narrative journalism has been associated with several positive outcomes. This study tested the novel idea that solutions
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Understanding Trust: Global Conversations & Local Realities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Internews (2021), 20 pp.
"In this paper, we share selected insights from our work across seven countries facing complex and often protracted preexisting humanitarian crises before the pandemic. Over the past nine months, with Internews’ Rooted in Trust project, we have worked to understand the role of rumors and misinform
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Listening to What Trust in News Means to Users: Qualitative Evidence from Four Countries
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 50 pp.
"This report examines how people in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US view news media in their countries, the factors they use when determining whether sources are trustworthy, and what ‘trust in news’ ultimately means to them [...] While we note throughout the report areas of difference between
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Media Polarization and Media (Dis)trust in Albania
Ljubljana: South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2021), 23 pp.
"The opinion poll and the discussion with journalists provided interesting insights into the current public perception of media trust and the factors that contribute to such trust, as well as to the overall understanding of the public of media issues. The poll confirmed the dominance of television a
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Edelman Trust Barometer 2020: Global Report
Edelman (2020), 77 pp.
"The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that despite a strong global economy and near full employment, none of the four societal institutions that the study measures—government, business, NGOs and media—is trusted. The cause of this paradox can be found in people’s fears about the future and
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Public Trust in the Media During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Media Matters for Democracy (2020), 34 pp.
"The public generally approved of the Pakistani news media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. A majority of the respondents agreed that the Covid news coverage had provided them the information they needed, provided largely accurate information, worked for the benefit of the public, and helped th
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Trust Misplaced? A Report on the Future of Trust in Media
Ipsos (2020), 31 pp.
"This report is a collaboration between Ipsos and The Trust Project, a U.S.-based non-profit, international consortium of news organizations building standards of transparency. Its mission is to “amplify journalism’s commitment to transparency, accuracy, inclusion and fairness so that the public
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Vertrauen in Journalismus unter Online-Bedingungen: Zum Einfluss von Personenmerkmalen, Qualitätswahrnehmungen und Nachrichtennutzung
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xvi, 340 pp.
"In Teilen der Bevölkerung erodiert das Vertrauen in journalistische Medien. Gleichzeitig verliert der Journalismus seine Rolle als Gatekeeper und tritt in Konkurrenz zu anderen Informationsanbietern im Internet. Fabian Prochazka untersucht theoretisch und empirisch, wie diese beiden Phänomene zus
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Vertrauen in Journalismus in Deutschland: Eine Typologie der Skeptiker
Media Perspektiven, issue 4 (2020), pp. 196-206
"In einer repräsentativen Onlinebefragung wurden Ursachen und Ausprägungen von Medienvertrauen ermittelt. Bei allgemein hohen Vertrauenswerten zeigt rund ein Viertel der Befragten kritische Einstellungen gegenüber dem Journalismus. Die Journalismusskeptiker können in drei Typen unterschieden wer
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"This report aims to assess the perception of the media and media skills among the citizens of the Republic of Moldova in 2020 and shows the dynamics compared to the first similar report conducted in 2018. This study assesses the extent to which media consumers can assess the quality media content,
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Vertrauen in journalistische Medien aus Sicht der Rezipienten: Zum Einfluss von soziopolitischen und performanzbezogenen Erklärgrößen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xvi, 375 pp.
"Magdalena Obermaier untersucht in ihrer Studie, welche Faktoren das Vertrauen in journalistische Medien erklären. Dazu greift die Autorin insbesondere auf die psychologische, politologische und kommunikationswissenschaftliche (Vertrauens-) Forschung zurück und systematisiert mögliche Erklärgrö
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News Media Trust and its Impact on Media Use: Toward a Framework for Future Research
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 44, issue 2 (2020), pp. 139-156
"In contemporary high-choice media environments, the issue of media trust and its impact on people’s media use has taken on new importance. At the same time, the extent to which people trust the news media and how much it matters for their use of different types of media is not clear. To lay the g
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What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 26 pp.
"Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten people (38%) across 40 markets say they typically trust most news. While trust has fallen by double digit margins in recent years in many places, including Brazil and the Unit
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Die Wahrheit ist tot, es lebe die Wahrheit! Medien und Politik im heutigen Polen
Warsaw: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 4 pp.
"Die Medien haben in den letzten 10 Jahren in Polen deutlich an Glaubwürdigkeit eingebüßt – gleichzeitig ist in der Bevölkerung das politische Interesse und Engagement gestiegen. Die auseinandergehende Wahrnehmung der Politik in den Bevölkerungsgruppen formt der unterschiedliche Medienkonsum.
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Edelman Trust Barometer 2021: Confianza en México
Edelman (2020), 30 pp.
Healthy Scepticism Across the Board: A Study on Media Perception in Sudan
Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2020), 18 pp.
"Social media is the most dominant source of news, with television and radio both declining in popularity amongst young audiences. Social media is popular due to its accessibility and speed of reporting events. Countering the commonly high popularity of radio in Africa, radio was seen as outdated an
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The Measurement of Trust in Communication Research, Part 1
Communication Research Trends, volume 39, issue 4 (2020), pp. 4-34
"Professor Pascual-Ferrá provides a real service to researchers by assembling not only the story of research into trust but also the key scales with which people examined trust. Taking even a brief look at the tables accompanying this study of trust, one easily sees how unsettled this research area
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