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2026 Edelman Trust Barometer. Global Report: Trust Amid Insularity
Edelman Trust Institute (2026), 49 slides
"The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a world retreating towards insularity. As economic anxiety, geopolitical tension, and technological disruption intensify, people are narrowing their world to smaller, familiar circles that reflect their views, and this hinders economic and societal progress
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Stabiles Medienvertrauen auch in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche: Mainzer Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen 2024
Media Perspektiven, issue 13 (2025), 20 pp.
"Das Medienvertrauen in Deutschland bleibt 2024 gegenüber dem Vorjahr weitgehend stabil und ist auch in einer langfristigen Perspektive recht robust. Das öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen ist nach wie vor die Mediengattung, der am meisten vertraut wird. Das Vertrauen in den öffentlich-rechtlichen
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The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation: A Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 5 (2025), pp. 931-948
"Trust lies at the heart of the disinformation crisis, as citizens must decide which narratives to follow and whether to accept “alternative truths.” Therefore, trust in institutions that publish reliable information can act as a shield against disinformation. This comparative study investigates
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The Consequences of Evidence- Versus Non-Evidence-Based Understandings of the “Truth”: How Russian Speakers in Germany Negotiate Trust in Their Transnational News Environments
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 30, issue 1 (2025), pp. 326-345
"Extant research on migrants’ media use and trust has delivered mixed evidence on whether, and in which ways, migrants stay loyal to their homeland news media and/or develop trust in host-society media, particularly when the narratives of the two types of media clash. To advance this strand of res
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Trust, Responsibility, and Digital Governance: Regulation of AI and Blockchain Technology from a Capacity-Based Perspective
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 229 pp.
"Numerous ethical guidelines and regulatory frameworks have been developed to assess and shape digital systems. However, these efforts often rest on the dubious assumption that individuals and organisations possess the necessary capacities to assess such systems in terms of justice, reliability, and
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Determinants of institutional trust in sub-Saharan Africa: Does media exposure matter?
Afrobarometer (2025), 35 pp.
"As the main channel for information about institutions and their performance, the media have the potential to influence citizens' perceptions of them. In recent decades, the media environment has undergone significant change, making different types of information readily available. At the same time
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Info-Monitor 2025
Berlin: Die Medienanstalten (2025), 80 pp.
"Der Info-Monitor der Medienanstalten dokumentiert, wo und wie sich die Bevölkerung in Deutschland zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen informiert. Nutzung: Der Bedarf in der Bevölkerung an Informationen zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen ist groß. Mehr als 90 Prozent interessieren sich für aktuelle Themen und
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators
Shorenstein Center (2024), 22 pp.
"What emerges most clearly from this comparison of journalists and creators is that journalism has placed many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators try to embed the markers of trust directly in their interactions with audiences." (Conclusion)
Expectations of News Media in Uganda: Advancing a Theory of Relative Institutional Trust in Journalism
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1873–1892
"Compared with work on trust in news, surprisingly little research examines audiences’ expectations of journalism. Audiences’ expectations, after all, elucidate public opinion of news, including the criteria by which news and journalists may be trusted. Journalism expectancy research is particul
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Building Trusted Media in a Fragile Setting: An Evaluation of Radio Ndeke Luka in Central African Republic
Michigan State University (2024), 8 pp.
"Can the impact of a news radio station on a highly vulnerable population in a crisis-affected country be measured? The installation of new FM transmitters for Radio Ndeke Luka in Beloko, Birao, and Obo in the Central African Republic offered an opportunity to carry out a field study measuring the i
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Trust in a Digital World: The Roles of Media Trust and Ordinary Citizen Cues in Online Disinformation’s Credibility
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 72, issue 3 (2024), pp. 297-312
"The perception of disinformation as societal risk has reached a troubling peak amid the COVID-19 pandemic, strategically targeting vulnerable audiences through digital media by mirroring characteristics of vox populi disinformation. This study investigates the conditions under which COVID-19-relate
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The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 2 (2024), pp. 485-506
"The watchdog role has been one of the most widely discussed normative functions of the press. In this study, we examine the public’s attitudes toward the news media’s watchdog performance and how they correlate with trust in news and news avoidance, two important phenomena for democracy and the
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Bundles of trust? Examining the relationships between media repertoires, institutional trust, and social contexts
Coomunications, volume 49, issue 2 (2024), pp. 243-262
"How the media influence the trust that citizens have in institutions such as politics and science seems more important than ever, given the decline of institutional trust in Western societies, and the increasingly diversified media landscape. This paper focuses on the relationship between media rep
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2024 Edelman Trust Barometer: Global Report
Edelman (2024), 88 slides
"The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a new paradox at the heart of society. Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization. In a year where half the global population
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The Influence of Media Trust and Normative Role Expectations on the Credibility of Fact Checkers
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1137-1157
"Fact-checking has been granted a pivotal role in mitigating the effects of online disinformation, but its effectiveness has nonetheless been questioned. Like any persuasive communication, fact checkers depend on their recipients perceiving both their messages and them as credible. This study invest
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Have people ‘had enough of experts’? The impact of populism and pandemic misinformation on institutional trust in comparative perspective
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"Public trust in institutions is a key prerequisite for effective crisis management. However, the rise of populism and misinformation in recent years made it increasingly difficult to maintain institutional trust. Despite this recognition, we still lack a systematic understanding of how exposure to
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Trust and the Media: Arguments for the (irr)elevance of a Concept
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 4 (2023), pp. 479-495
"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 important? Are there reasons to accept these arguments? We identify three distinct arguments in the literature. First, that it
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