“It’s a Battle You Are Never Going to Win”: Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News

Arguedas, Amy A. Ross; Badrinathan, Sumitra; Mont'Alverne, Camila; Toff, Benjamin; Fletcher, Richard; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2022.2112908

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“…These direct contacts, public discrediting, and harassment reveal the changed relationship between audiences and the news media. The latter are now present online and expected to connect with people; therefore, they are easy to approach, which might weaken their authority (Ross Arguedas et al 2022;Schapals and Bruns 2022;Toff et al 2021). The news media are by no means seen as the only institution holding the truth; people can seek and find their own truths through their online networks (Carlson 2015;Waisbord 2018).…”

Section: Defending the Boundaries Of News Media As Societal Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In general, journalists seem to have significant trust in journalistic values and practices, which are used to justify their role in society. When facing challenges, the news media are seen as capable of becoming stronger if they maintain their professional values and show this to their audiences in a transparent manner (e.g., Ross Arguedas et al 2022;Schapals and Bruns 2022). In the Finnish context, these professional values relate especially to journalism's ethics and the strong system of self-regulation that the news media sustain (see Julkisen sanan neuvosto JSN, 2013JSN, /2011.…”

Section: Defending the Boundaries Of News Media As Societal Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Interweaving of Influences: How the Digital Environment Redefines Journalism

Solito,

Sorrentino

2023

Studies in Big Data

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The series "Studies in Big Data" (SBD) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of Big Data-quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, research, development, and applications of Big Data, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics, economics and life sciences. The books of the series refer to the analysis and understanding of large, complex, and/or distributed data sets generated from recent digital sources coming from sensors or other physical instruments as well as simulations, crowd sourcing, social networks or other internet transactions, such as emails or video click streams and other. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in Big Data spanning the areas of computational intelligence including neural networks, evolutionary computation, soft computing, fuzzy systems, as well as artificial intelligence, data mining, modern statistics and Operations research, as well as self-organizing systems. Of particular value to both the contributors and the readership are the short publication timeframe and the world-wide distribution, which enable both wide and rapid dissemination of research output.

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Section: Defending the Boundaries Of News Media As Societal Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Defending the Boundaries Of News Media As Societal Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Interweaving of Influences: How the Digital Environment Redefines Journalism

Solito,

Sorrentino

2023

Studies in Big Data

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“…Opinion polarization is usually distinguished from affective polarization, whereby members of different parties increasingly dislike each other [ 1 – 4 ], yet can still become a threat to democracy by preventing dialogue and consensus [ 5 , 6 ]. Its spread is observed on all continents [ 7 ] and has expanded partly due to the explosion of digital social media [ 8 , 9 ] where unlimited production and easy transmission of (mis)information are ubiquitous [ 10 , 11 ]. Diverse generative mechanisms as well as mathematical and computational models have been proposed to explain polarization [ 12 – 18 ], notably in terms of both micro - and macro-level characteristics of human social groups such as the architecture of social networks, the dynamics of interactions between individuals or the way those individuals process information (see [ 19 , 20 ] for recent and synthetic overviews of these mechanisms).…”

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The roots of polarization in the individual reward system

Lefebvre,

Deroy,

Bahrami

2024

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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Polarization raises concerns for democracy and society, which have expanded in the internet era where (mis)information has become ubiquitous, its transmission faster than ever, and the freedom and means of opinion expressions are expanding. The origin of polarization however remains unclear, with multiple social and emotional factors and individual reasoning biases likely to explain its current forms. In the present work, we adopt a principled approach and show that polarization tendencies can take root in biased reward processing of new information in favour of choice confirmatory evidence. Through agent-based simulations, we show that confirmation bias in individual learning is an independent mechanism and could be sufficient for creating polarization at group level independently of any additional assumptions about the opinions themselves, a priori beliefs about them, information transmission mechanisms or the structure of social relationship between individuals. This generative process can interact with polarization mechanisms described elsewhere, but constitutes an entrenched biological tendency that helps explain the extraordinary resilience of polarization against mitigating efforts such as dramatic informational change in the environment.

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“…Trustworthiness is key to news production (Barnoy and Reich 2020 ; Ross Arguedas et al 2022 ). Yet, there is still much we do not know about the discursive strategies that journalists employ to signal their doubts or beliefs, and to inspire trust among audiences (Gonen, Kampf, and Tenenboim-Weinblatt 2020 ; Hanitzsch et al 2019 ).…”

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“You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse

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This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences’ perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections. Drawing on rich data from five election rounds in Israel and the US, we qualitatively analyzed 400 news texts and 400 tweets that were produced by 20 US and 20 Israeli media actors. This textual analysis was supplemented by 10 in-depth interviews with Israeli journalists. Our findings demonstrate three types of journalistic trust-building rhetoric in election coverage: facticity, authority, and transparency. These strategies result in a two-fold form of trust, which re-affirms traditional notions of accuracy and validity, while also challenging the ability of newspersons to obtain them in contemporary political and media cultures. Overall, these strategies hold unique opportunities and challenges for sustaining public trust in journalism and illuminate the complex communicative labor involved in building trust with news audiences. Our findings also highlight the importance of studying trust not only in relation to the past and the present, but also in future-oriented discourse.

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“It’s a Battle You Are Never Going to Win”: Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News

Cited by 15 publications

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An Interweaving of Influences: How the Digital Environment Redefines Journalism

An Interweaving of Influences: How the Digital Environment Redefines Journalism

The roots of polarization in the individual reward system

“You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse

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