Parsing the Relationship Between Political News Consumption and Hierarchical Political Trust in China

Meng, Xiaoxiao; Li, Yungeng

doi:10.1080/17512786.2020.1867623

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“…The benign-cycle theory suggests that the public's media use can have positive effects on political attitudes, such as increasing political interest, knowledge, and participation, as well as fostering political trust [34][35][36][37]. However, research indicates that the relationship between media use and political trust is complex and dependent on various factors, including the type and content of media consumed, the level of media use and trust, and the underlying motivation for media consumption [24,38,39]. Additionally, the impact of media use on political trust is subject to change depending on the broader media landscape and context [40,41].…”

Section: Unofficial Media Use and Political Trustmentioning

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Using unofficial media, less trusting of Chinese polity?—An analysis based on the moderated mediation effect

Yan-ping

2023

PLoS ONE

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Enhancing political trust is an important manifestation of China’s ability to modernisation national governance in the media age. In the context where unofficial media has a crowding-out effect on official media, building political trust effectively becomes an important foundation for promoting the construction of a national governance system. This study employs the 2015 survey data on social consciousness of netizens and constructs a moderated mediation model using the bootstrap method, with subjective well-being as the intermediary variable and official media use as the moderating variable, to empirically explore the influence of unofficial media use on political trust and its underlying mechanism. The results reveal that unofficial media use significantly and steadily deconstructing political trust. In terms of the mechanism of transmission, subjective well-being is an important channel used by unofficial media use to deconstruct political trust, official media has a positive moderating role in the impact pathway of subjective well-being on political trust. Further research finds that unofficial media use has a stronger impact on trust in the central government, court, and police, compared to trust in township governments. Weibo or online communities and overseas media can deconstruct political trust, however, gossip or chatting with friends can construct political trust. In general, this study provides theoretical basis and empirical experience for how to enhance government trust and ultimately promote the construction of national governance system, given the increasing influence of unofficial media. Meanwhile, the research results also provide some reference value for countries with similar backgrounds to China.

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Section: Unofficial Media Use and Political Trustmentioning

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“…However, is this true for China as well? The answer is inconclusive [21][22][23][24][25]. The main reason is that scholars focus only on a specific type of media or a specific context [26].…”

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Using unofficial media, less trusting of Chinese polity?—An analysis based on the moderated mediation effect

Yan-ping

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Even though the two theoretical views suggest different media effects on political trust, they could be both correct depending on the context. Some scholars even propose a third thesis, stating that the effect of media usage on political trust should depend on specific contexts including media types, media content, motivation of media usage, degree of media usage and levels of trust in media, and the like (Jiang & Zhang, 2021; Kang & Zhu, 2021; Meng & Li, 2021; Niu, 2010). When the specific contexts change, the relationship between media usage and political trust could also change (Brosius, van Elsas & de Vreese, 2019; Echeverria & Mani, 2020; Guggenheim, Kwak & Campbell, 2011; Kim, Chen & De Zúñiga, 2013; Otto & Maier, 2016; Von Sikorski & Herbst, 2020; Tsfati, Tukachinsky, & Peri, 2009).…”

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“…Even though scholars find that mass media have a significant impact on the rise and fall of political trust in Western democracies (Chan, 1997; Moy & Scheufele, 2000; Newton, 2017), research on China reports inconclusive findings about media’s impact on trust in government (Chen & Shi, 2001; Hutchison & Xu, 2017; Kennedy, 2009; Lu, 2014; Meng & Li, 2021; Wu & Wilkes, 2018). Part of the reason is because most studies only focused on one specific type of media or a specific context.…”

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Exploring the effects of traditional media, social media, and foreign media on hierarchical levels of political trust in China

Zhang

2022

Global Media and China

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Although there is a consensus that mass media play an important role in the rise and fall of political trust in Western democracies, existing research on media use and political trust in China achieved relatively inconclusive findings. By using two surveys conducted in China in 2013 and 2018, we examine the effects of media use, including traditional media, social media, and foreign media, on Chinese citizens’ trust in their central and local governments. Our research shows that traditional media usage such as watching TV and reading newspapers is positively associated with citizens’ trust in the central government but is not related to their trust in local governments. Social media usage is negatively associated with trust in local governments but not with trust in the central government. Using VPNs to access foreign media is negatively associated with Chinese citizens’ trust in the central government but does not affect their trust in local governments. We explain why different types of media have such contrasting effects on political trust in central versus local Chinese governments and discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of these findings.

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“…А.X. Meng and Y. Li (Meng, Li, 2021) indicate that the central and local media influence the population's confidence in the political authority and are part of the good governance of the country. K. Mcintyre, C. Gyldensted (Mcintyre, Gyldensted, 2018: 662-678) even introduce the special term "constructive journalism" in order to form political priorities in the country.…”

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Representation of Deputies in Regional Digital Media or Who We Elect to Power

2022

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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The first part of this article discusses the role of media information in the election campaigns of political parties. The section emphasizes that media information plays a major role in the election for voters. This effect is explained by the fact that voters in elections are guided only by ideas about political candidates formed by the media. It is noted that a literate politician uses the media to shape his image and promote the ideas of the political party he represents. The second part of the article reveals the concept of political image and the influence of the media on its formation. In particular, the importance of information in the digital media is noted as information that can be accessed countless times at a convenient time for the electorate. The study examines in some detail the criteria used by voters in elections and suggests that generally accepted criteria for the selection of political candidates may not be in conformity with the actual qualifications of candidates. The third part of the article contains the results of the research of digital media information presented on the website of the Volgograd Oblast Duma. The results of the study showed that the elected candidates did not fully meet the accepted electoral criteria. The study revealed the features of the politician's image, taking into account the regional specifics of voters. The results of the research presented also showed that elected deputies do not present themselves as representatives of individual parties in their statements in the digital media. In general, the research leads to the conclusion of the need to manage digital media information in the interests of developing competition among political parties in the regions of Russia and in the country. This requires each political party to develop a special program to promote its political goals in the regional media.

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Parsing the Relationship Between Political News Consumption and Hierarchical Political Trust in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 74 publications

Using unofficial media, less trusting of Chinese polity?—An analysis based on the moderated mediation effect

Using unofficial media, less trusting of Chinese polity?—An analysis based on the moderated mediation effect

Exploring the effects of traditional media, social media, and foreign media on hierarchical levels of political trust in China

Representation of Deputies in Regional Digital Media or Who We Elect to Power

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