News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions

Amazeen, Michelle A.

doi:10.1177/1077699019886589

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“…Being forewarned about the covert advertising practices news organizations engage in can have an immediate chilling effect on engagement regardless of whether or not people perceive the content as journalism. While previous studies have shown the detrimental effect recognition of native advertising has on subsequent reporting by actual journalists (Amazeen, 2020; Iversen & Knudsen, 2019), the present finding demonstrates the risk publishers take when people simply hear about the practice of native advertising even in general. This merits further study.…”

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Resisting Covert Persuasion in Digital News: Comparing Inoculation and Reactance in the Processing of Native Advertising Disclosures and in Article Engagement Intentions

Amazeen

2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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An online experiment ( N = 931) assessing recognition of and responses to native advertising sought to explore how disclosures affect behavioral intent in digital news contexts. Findings suggest that resistance to persuasive attempts conferred by native advertising disclosures is explained by both inoculation and reactance processes and demonstrates how a simple, or generic, disclosure can inoculate people against a type of message (covert advertising mimicking authentic journalism) rather than the content of the message. Furthermore, the attenuating effect of a simple disclosure on behavioral intent is fully and serially mediated through advertising recognition, increased perception of threat to freedom, and increased reactance.

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Resisting Covert Persuasion in Digital News: Comparing Inoculation and Reactance in the Processing of Native Advertising Disclosures and in Article Engagement Intentions

Amazeen

2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…When preparing to counter misinformation, it is important to identify likely sources. Although social media is an important misinformation vector 210 , traditional news organizations can promote misinformation via opinion pieces 211 , sponsored content 212 or uncritical repetition of politician statements 213 . Practitioners must anticipate the misinformation themes and ensure suitable fact-based alternative accounts are available for either prebunking or a quick debunking response.…”

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“…Implications for policymakers. Ultimately, even if practitioners and information consumers apply all of these strategies to reduce the impact of misinformation, their efforts will be stymied if media platforms continue to amplify misinformation 14,16,[208][209][210][211][212][213] . These platforms include social media platforms such as YouTube, which are geared towards maximizing engagement even if this means promoting misinformation 229 , and traditional media outlets such as television news channels, where misinformation can negatively impact audiences.…”

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The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

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Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only can belief in misinformation lead to poor judgements and decision-making, it also exerts a lingering influence on people's reasoning after it has been corrected -an effect known as the continued influence effect. In this Review, we describe the cognitive, social and affective factors that lead people to form or endorse misinformed views, and the psychological barriers to knowledge revision after misinformation has been corrected, including theories of continued influence. We discuss the effectiveness of both pre-emptive ('prebunking') and reactive ('debunking') interventions to reduce the effects of misinformation, as well as implications for information consumers and practitioners in various areas including journalism, public health, policymaking and education.

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“…Einstein 2016) is partly due to the blending of a diverse range of content online, especially on social media. Content from journalistic organizations competes with promotional and user-generated content for audience attention (e.g., Amazeen 2020). Yet this phenomenon is equally due to the multiple roles that journalists may play in communicating on news sites as well as social media platforms.…”

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The Multidimensionality of Trust: Assessing Finnish Audiences’ Views on the Trustworthiness of Digital News

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Matikainen

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Finland provides an interesting case study on trust in the media in the digital era. The country is known to exhibit the greatest levels of trust in the political establishment and the government, as well as the media. In the Finnish “digital welfare state,” the news is an inseparable part of the mechanism, producing a high level of social trust within the welfare state system, and Finland features the highest level of media freedom and literacy in Europe. This multimethod study examines different understandings of trust by studying in what ways Finnish audiences experience trust in news, especially when consuming news on digital platforms, and what factors explain trust in different news sources. Our basic premise is that trust can be understood in three ways: as dispositions of individual actors, as the social organization and the relationship between different social nodes and the system, and as a constantly negotiated property of social relations. We apply this three-dimensional framework in two sets of audience survey research data (2019, 2020) and reflect the findings with a focus group and expert interviews as well as with two similar surveys a decade prior. Our results depict relatively high levels of trust in the media in Finland and surprisingly little change in audiences’ perceptions of trustworthiness compared to the earlier surveys. The most defining characteristic of Finnish audiences is critical trust. Audiences are aware of the impacts of digitization, especially the dangers of social media bubbles and disinformation. They also recognize market-driven imperatives of journalism yet appreciate legacy news media in its different digital forms. Our study indicates that a balance between skepticism and reliance on news outlets can exist in audiences’ perceptions of the trustworthiness of digital news.

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News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions

Cited by 21 publications

References 59 publications

Resisting Covert Persuasion in Digital News: Comparing Inoculation and Reactance in the Processing of Native Advertising Disclosures and in Article Engagement Intentions

Resisting Covert Persuasion in Digital News: Comparing Inoculation and Reactance in the Processing of Native Advertising Disclosures and in Article Engagement Intentions

The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

The Multidimensionality of Trust: Assessing Finnish Audiences’ Views on the Trustworthiness of Digital News

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