Full Description
Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and political conditions and consequences.
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative approaches, the chapters in Mainstream News Media Trust summarizes what we know about news media trust today and sets out a research agenda to advance our understanding of the topic in the future. Chapters consider issues such as trends in news media trust, what factors shape and moderate news media trust, how much news media trust a society needs, how truthful news reporting and trust are related, how institutional trust and false stories shape public opinion, and contemporary challenges to news media trust. In addition, they consider what measures different news media have taken to increase audience trust and engagement.
This book adopts a comparative global outlook to provide a well-rounded state of the field art. Mainstream News Media Trust is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in Journalism, Digital Media, and related disciplines.
Contents
List of Contributors
Part I: Conceptual and normative perspectives
Chapter 1. Introduction: Re-thinking media trust in digital media environments
Nayla Fawzi, Jesper Strömbäck, and Yariv Tsfati
Chapter 2. A paradox or not? As Media Quality Rose, Trust in Media Declined
Michael Schudson
Chapter 3. Investigating media trust: methodological challenges and approaches
Yariv Tsfati and Caroline Fisher
Part II: Comparative perspectives
Chapter 4. What has happened to trust in news in the long run globally?
Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Chapter 5. Explaining levels of media trust across countries through macro-level factors
Thomas Hanitzsch, Magdalena Obermaier, Carsten Reinemann, and Nina Steindl
Part III: Antecedents and consequences of media trust
Chapter 6. Political antecedents and consequences of media trust
Nina Steindl and Magdalena Obermaier
Chapter 7. The role of media trust in media use and effects
Rens Vliegenthart
Part IV: Current challenges
Chapter 8. The age of misinformation: How institutional trust and false stories shape public opinion
Katherine Ognyanova
Chapter 9. News media trust facing new competitors
Yifei Wang and Miriam Metzger
Chapter 10. Truthful news reporting and media trust: a complex relationship
Jesper Strömbäck
Chapter 11. Building media trust from an editorial perspective
Jacob L. Nelson
Chapter 12. Delegitimizing the media to undermine public media trust
Jana Laura Egelhofer and Sophie Lecheler
Chapter 13. Conclusion: Toward a framework for future research on news media trust
Yariv Tsfati, Nayla Fawzi, and Jesper Strömbäck
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