The Truth Between the Lines: Conceptualization of Trust in News Media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia

Pjesivac, Ivanka; Spasovska, Katerina; Imre, Iveta

doi:10.1080/15205436.2015.1128548

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“…At the center of their theory of trust in news media is selectivity, the fundamental feature of basic tasks regularly performed by media workers during the news production process. Previous research has found media trust in terms of journalistic selectivity to be relevant for Serbian citizens' conceptualizations of media trust (Pjesivac et al, 2016), and the same conceptualization is also implemented in the current study.…”

Section: Defining Media Trustmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…The disseminator role describes the most basic democratic task of the news media-to provide relevant political information to citizens in order to assist them in making informed decisions in a neutral and objective manner. Recent studies have found a preference for objective journalism among the general public and journalism students in Serbia (Pjesivac et al, 2016;Pjesivac & Imre, 2019). The association of this kind of reporting with media trust (worthiness) has been shown by studies in different political contexts (Cozzens & Contractor, 1987;Livio & Cohen, 2018).…”

Section: Perceptions Of Journalistic Role Performance and Media Trustmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Such perceptions show that the public is unconvinced by the media's capacity to break free from the negative practices which, for long, have been governing the mass media in Serbia. As Pjesivac, Spasovska and Imre (2016) noted, Serbian citizens express a lack of faith in the expertise of Serbian journalists and a high degree of cynicism.…”

Section: The Media Environment and Public Perceptions Of The News Media In Serbiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The origins of media trust in a young democracy

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Declining trust in news media has often been recognized as one of the major challenges facing modern journalism with potentially detrimental consequences for democratic processes. In this article, we examine the predictive potential of cultural-political and performance factors on public trust in news media in the context of a young democracy. Specifically, we have analyzed to what extent citizens’ populist attitudes and perceptions of journalistic roles relate to the levels of media trust using data from an online survey of Serbian respondents (N = 200). The findings showed that support for populism did not significantly predict trust in news media in general after controlling for relevant factors, most importantly political trust. However, populist attitudes were found to be related to the amount of trust citizens have in distinct types of news media –i.e., those who support populism exhibited less trust in public broadcasters than in online news outlets. The analyses also revealed that the more Serbian citizens perceived news media as being successful at performing interpretive and mobilizing roles, the more trust they placed in the media.

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“…Secondly, in Western literature, trust has been considered as a foundation of social order and cohesion that often determines a nation’s well-being and its ability to organize and compete [ 29 ]. Moving to different types of trust (in government, news, institutions, etc.…”

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“…), there is no unified understanding of how media trust should be defined or measured [ 30 ]. However, based on the theory review, the concept of trust in media, in general, can manifest firstly through (1) the believability of news media organizations, (2) the credibility of news media, and (3) the trust in news media as an institution [ 29 ]. Secondly, trust can be established through content levels, those delivering the content, and media ownership [ 31 ].…”

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Explaining News Trust in Social Media News during the COVID-19 Pandemic—The Role of a Need for Cognition and News Engagement

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2021

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During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, people have, in many cases, acquired information primarily from social media. Users’ need to stay informed and the intensive circulation of news has led to the spread of misinformation. As they have engaged in news, it has raised the question of trust. This study provides a model on how news trust can be explained through a need for cognition and news engagement. Accordingly, 433 Slovenian social media users participated in our survey. Structural equation modeling revealed that (1) the lower the need for cognition and the more prior knowledge about COVID-19 users have, the more they believe that social media news comprises all facts about the disease; (2) the more users believe that news comprises all essential facts, the more they trust that the news depicts the actual situation about COVID-19 accurately; (3) the more users are interested in engaging with social media news, the more they trust that the actual situation about COVID-19 is depicted accurately. These findings may help authorities to frame messages about COVID-19 effectively. We suggest investing more effort in disseminating new scientific evidence about the disease to contribute to the accurate shaping of knowledge about COVID-19 among social media users.

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Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences

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The Truth Between the Lines: Conceptualization of Trust in News Media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

The origins of media trust in a young democracy

The origins of media trust in a young democracy

Explaining News Trust in Social Media News during the COVID-19 Pandemic—The Role of a Need for Cognition and News Engagement

Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences

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