Trust and the Economics of News

Vanacker, Bastiaan; Belmas, Genelle I.

doi:10.1080/08900520902885277

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“…(Haiman, 2000, p. 13) For some scholars, trust is crucial. Vanacker and Belmas (2009) distinguished between trust and credibility. An individual or a report might be credible, they wrote, but trust is complex, relational, and cumulative.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Conversation and Credibility: Broadening Journalism Criticism Through Public Engagement

Feighery

2011

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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As technology and public expectations have expanded journalism into a practice shared by many, criticism remains the province of a relative few. Bloggers have added their voices to professionals' self-criticism, and social media have vastly expanded opportunities for dialogic exchanges. Building on earlier research, this article seeks to expand journalism criticism by applying the dominant public relations model of two-way symmetrical communication. This includes collaboration, compromise, listening, and a desire to balance power-attributes that can enable journalists to be transparent, accountable, and autonomous if they publicly replicate the thoughtfulness of conversations they have long had among themselves.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Conversation and Credibility: Broadening Journalism Criticism Through Public Engagement

Feighery

2011

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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“…However, there is ample evidence that the public's trust in (news) media is on the decline (see e.g. Vanacker & Belmas, 2009;Harwood, 2004;Tsfati & Cappella, 2003). In recent years, the capacity of the news media to reflect social reality and also take part in it has also been a subject of debate (see Coleman, 2012;Van Zoonen, 2012;Quandt, 2012;Coleman et al, 2009;Kohring & Matthes, 2007).…”

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The image of trust: Readers' views on the trustworthiness of news photographs

Puustinen¹,

Seppänen

2013

CM - Commun manag

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After the digitalisation of the photographic process, an ample debate has revolved around one question: can people still trust in news photographs? To answer the question we first need to know what trust is and how it is conceptualised in the visual experience. Therefore, we conducted an empirical reception study in order to find out how people talk about the trust related to news photographs. We found that trust is a complicated and dynamic phenomenon, which is very hard to capture. With the aid of frame analysis, the study elicits four dimensions of trust: 1) Tacit trust is the general frame upon which people act in everyday life, also when watching news images; 2) Measured trust is activated when the viewer takes a conscious risk in that the news image is not representative of reality. Yet this is a trusting approach to the image; 3) Contextual trust is negotiation of trust, comparing different genres and contexts; 4) Finally, doubt comes to the fore when the viewer openly questions the veracity or the purpose of the image, whether it is manipulated or selected in order to persuade the viewer for a certain cause. The study shows that readers' trust is a multidimensional process, yet the frame of tacit trust is the most common among interviewees. Trust in the case of news images can be expanded to reflect audiences' trust in media at large.

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“…Goldsmith and Huriuchi argue that the impact of foreign leaders' public diplomacy efforts have a lot to do with credibility (2009: 865), and in the trust-literature, credibility is also usually considered one of several prerequisites for trust (Jackob, 2010;Vanacker and Belmas, 2009). Goldsmith and Huriuchi (2009) found support for their hypothesis that if a foreign leader is perceived as credible, then 'public diplomacy will have a net positive effect on foreign policy perceptions.'…”

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International trust and public diplomacy

Mogensen

2015

International Communication Gazette

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National leaders struggle to communicate in ways that are perceived as trustworthy by citizens of other nations because trust is linked to efficiency, business opportunities, and political influence. In this article, four recent public diplomacy activities are analyzed from a trust-building perspective: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's letter in The Washington Post; The British Council's strategy for trustbuilding in China; Russian President Vladimir V. Putin's letter in The New York Times; and the USA's trust-building effort in Turkey. The analyses are based on already publicized descriptions of public diplomacy activities, public polls, and scholarly literature. Public diplomacy ideas discussed include lightshow, hand-on cooperation, win-win projects, and the creation of frameworks for self-expression. A central concept is international trust as described by Brewer, Gross, Aday and Willnat. Based on the analysis it is suggested to amend the concept, to distinguish between trust in foreign people and trust in foreign governments.

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Trust and the Economics of News

Cited by 42 publications

References 23 publications

Conversation and Credibility: Broadening Journalism Criticism Through Public Engagement

Conversation and Credibility: Broadening Journalism Criticism Through Public Engagement

The image of trust: Readers' views on the trustworthiness of news photographs

International trust and public diplomacy

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