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Six Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management
Brighton: Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2021), 5 pp.
"Building trust in public health authorities and epidemic response takes time and is an ongoing process. However, in the short term, mistrust can be mitigated by responding in contextually appropriate ways through meaningful community engagement: 1. Use social science to understand the socio-economi
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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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News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
Edinburgh: Canongate Books (2021), 316 pp.
"People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of "information chaos". 'News: And How to Use It' is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to bots, from climate
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Safe. Strong. Viable. The Symbiosis Between Media Safety and Media Viability
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 41 pp.
"The interviews and the analyses by the experts show that: –– Quality content increases safety. The editors interviewed for this publication confirm that fair and balanced journalism, which clearly distinguishes between facts and opinion and treats the people at the center of the story with resp
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Systemvertrauen und Journalismus im Neoliberalismus
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 322 pp.
"Vertrauenskrisen haben Konjunktur: Ob Politik, Wissenschaft oder Journalismus - kein gesellschaftliches Teilsystem bleibt von öffentlichen Misstrauensbekundungen verschont. Doch was genau meint der schillernde Begriff »Systemvertrauen« und welche Konsequenzen hat ein Mangel desselben? Malte G. S
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Overcoming Indifference: What Attitudes Towards News Tell Us About Building Trust
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 69 pp.
"This report contains a range of findings about news audiences in each of the four countries [Brazil, India, United Kingdom, United States], focusing on audiences overall as well as different segments of the public categorised according to their degree of trust towards news brands in their country.
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State of the Media Survey Report 2021
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), xii, 46 pp.
"The survey found that 58% of Kenyans interviewed consume TV content on a typical day. This translates to approximately 16,740,493 Kenyans aged above 15 years who consume TV content. This is a drop from 74% of the respondents recorded in the 2020 survey. Across the regions, 60% of persons in North E
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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