Testing news trustworthiness in an online public sphere: a case study of<i>The Economist</i>'s news report covering the riots in Xinjiang, China

Tian, Dexin; Chao, Chin‐Chung

doi:10.1080/17544750.2012.723388

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“…However, there are risks with only interacting with people who share similar views and beliefs through curating your own social media bubble (Colleoni et al 2014 ). These risks include susceptibility to confirmation bias (Nickerson 1998 ) and content bias (Tian and Chao 2012 ), through seeking information that matches pre-existing beliefs (Colleoni et al 2014 ). Such an approach could exacerbate lack of trust between “insiders” and perceived “outsiders”, even when the information of “outsiders” could provide additional benefits to farmers.…”

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Environmental Management

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The exponential rise of information available means we can now, in theory, access knowledge on almost any question we ask. However, as the amount of unverified information increases, so too does the challenge in deciding which information to trust. Farmers, when learning about agricultural innovations, have historically relied on in-person advice from traditional ‘experts’, such as agricultural advisers, to inform farm management. As more farmers go online for information, it is not clear whether they are now using digital information to corroborate in-person advice from traditional ‘experts’, or if they are foregoing ‘expert’ advice in preference for peer-generated information. To fill this knowledge gap, we sought to understand how farmers in two contrasting European countries (Hungary and the UK) learnt about sustainable soil innovations and who influenced them to innovate. Through interviews with 82 respondents, we found farmers in both countries regularly used online sources to access soil information; some were prompted to change their soil management by farmer social media ‘influencers’. However, online information and interactions were not usually the main factor influencing farmers to change their practices. Farmers placed most trust in other farmers to learn about new soil practices and were less trusting of traditional ‘experts’, particularly agricultural researchers from academic and government institutions, who they believed were not empathetic towards farmers’ needs. We suggest that some farmers may indeed have had enough of traditional ‘experts’, instead relying more on their own peer networks to learn and innovate. We discuss ways to improve trustworthy knowledge exchange between agricultural stakeholders to increase uptake of sustainable soil management practices, while acknowledging the value of peer influence and online interactions for innovation and trust building.

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“…Alongside an increased number of fieldwork and surveys (Bazzi 2014;Pan 2014), including reception studies (Conway and Vaskivska 2010;Thiranagama 2011;Tian and Chao 2012), news translation studies have naturally adopted textual analysis methodologies. As argued by Valdeón (2015: 647-648) in his literature review of fifteen years of journalistic translation research, these textual approaches have been moved by the central concern for ideology (and, to a certain extent, manipulation, especially when dealing with conflict).…”

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Manipulation of translation in hard news reporting on the Gulf crisis: combining narrative and appraisal

Boéri

Fattah

2020

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News Media Translation

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2021

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As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role of in the production and dissemination of the news. The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences. This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical and descriptive perspectives. Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis and narrative theory to Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.

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Testing news trustworthiness in an online public sphere: a case study ofThe Economist's news report covering the riots in Xinjiang, China

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Have farmers had enough of experts?

Have farmers had enough of experts?

Manipulation of translation in hard news reporting on the Gulf crisis: combining narrative and appraisal

News Media Translation

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