Believing false political headlines and discrediting truthful political headlines: The interaction between news source trust and news content expectancy

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 146488491876531
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
News Content ◽  
News Source ◽  
Source Trust

scholarly journals Assessing adolescents’ critical health literacy: How is trust in government leadership associated with knowledge of COVID-19?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0259523
Author(s):  
Channing J. Mathews ◽  
Luke McGuire ◽  
Angelina Joy ◽  
Fidelia Law ◽  
Mark Winterbottom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
News Source ◽  
Government Leadership ◽  
The Us ◽  
Government Leader ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Source Trust

This study explored relations between COVID-19 news source, trust in COVID-19 information source, and COVID-19 health literacy in 194 STEM-oriented adolescents and young adults from the US and the UK. Analyses suggest that adolescents use both traditional news (e.g., TV or newspapers) and social media news to acquire information about COVID-19 and have average levels of COVID-19 health literacy. Hierarchical linear regression analyses suggest that the association between traditional news media and COVID-19 health literacy depends on participants’ level of trust in their government leader. For youth in both the US and the UK who used traditional media for information about COVID-19 and who have higher trust in their respective government leader (i.e., former US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson) had lower COVID-19 health literacy. Results highlight how youth are learning about the pandemic and the importance of not only considering their information source, but also their levels of trust in their government leaders.

The special taste of snack news: An application of niche theory to understand the appeal of Facebook as a news source

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja Schäfer ◽  
Michael Sülflow ◽  
Philipp Müller
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Television News ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Niche Theory ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Content ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Source ◽  
Balanced Information

Facebook has become an important source for political information since news posts are an essential part of the content that is shared and spread within the SNS. The present study applies the uses and gratifications approach and the theory of the niche to understand the specific appeal of Facebook as a source for political news. We compare the gratifications obtained from political Facebook news with those of political television news and newspapers. For this purpose, we conducted an online survey of Internet users (N=422). Results show that users hardly ever visit Facebook with the primary intention to find political information. Interestingly however, they estimate that about a quarter of the posts they receive contains political information. The most important dimension of gratifications obtained from political Facebook news content are “entertainment” and “killing time”. In these dimensions, Facebook is superior to political television news and newspapers. For “balanced information”, “surveillance”, and “social utility”, the two traditional sources outperform Facebook. Analyses of niche breadth and overlap demonstrate that Facebook has a comparatively narrow niche and a low overlap with the two traditional news outlets. This means that political news content on Facebook serves a very specific function which is complementary to other sources. Users mainly turn to political news posts on Facebook for reasons related to distraction. However, their value can be seen in the fact that users might this way get in touch with political news that they otherwise might not have been exposed to at all.

scholarly journals There can be only one truth: Ideological segregation and online news communities in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 174276652110099
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Urman ◽  
Mykola Makhortykh
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
News Content ◽  
Echo Chambers ◽  
Region Of Residence ◽  
Online Environments ◽  
Partisan News

The paper examines ideological segregation among Ukrainian users in online environments, using as a case study partisan news communities on Vkontakte, the largest online platform in post-communist states. Its findings suggest that despite their insignificant numbers, partisan news communities attract substantial attention from Ukrainian users and can encourage the formation of isolated ideological cliques – or ‘echo chambers’ – that increase societal polarisation. The paper also investigates factors that predict users’ interest in partisan content and establishes that the region of residence is the key predictor of selective consumption of pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian partisan news content.

scholarly journals Internet of Vehicles Empowered Mobile Media: Research on Mobile-Generated Content (MoGC) for Intelligent Connected Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3538
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Yu ◽  
Doudou Jin ◽  
Chao Zhai ◽  
Wan Ni ◽  
Desheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Production Capacity ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Connected Vehicles ◽  
New Production ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Internet Of Vehicles ◽  
News Source ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Content Generation

With the rapid growth of mobile media, large quantities of mobile content have been generated by moving entities. Some content generation patterns become popular for users and professional organizations, e.g., user-generated content, professionally-generated content, machine-generated content. However, due to the limitations of device types and functions, it is necessary to explore the new production tools and further inspire the content potential in mobile scenarios. According to the production capacity supported by Internet of Vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) emerge as new content generated devices in sustainable cities. In this paper, we propose the concept of Mobile-Generated Content (MoGC) as a new part of production patterns. First, we analyze the relationship between MoGC and existing patterns from the perspectives of entity and workflow. Second, the unique functionality and social property of MoGC are revealed, i.e., ICVs play the role of middle platform with data and technology offices. The current dominant discourse created by the professional institutions (e.g., media agency or governing authority) will transfer to the vehicle users. In this way, the content generation system has been further enriched in omni-media environments through efficiently integrating productivity tools and resources. Besides, MoGC not only contributes to social governance by enlarging the news source and coverage, but also strengthen the personal discourse in mobile scenarios.

scholarly journals Story character, news source or vox pop? Representations and roles of citizen perspectives in crime news narratives

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199406
Author(s):  
Kobie van Krieken
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Crime Narratives ◽  
News Source ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Story Character ◽  
News Events ◽  
Over Time

This study analyzes citizen representations in a corpus of 300 Dutch newspaper narratives published between 1860 and 2009. Results show that citizen perspectives are more frequently represented than authority perspectives, although the perspectives of authorities have become somewhat more frequent over time. In-depth analyses of the citizen perspectives show that citizens may fulfil multiple roles in the crime narratives, leading up to a functional typology of citizens as (1) story characters experiencing the news events, (2) news sources providing inside information about the events, and (3) vox pops expressing opinions and evaluations of the events. The variety of citizen perspectives included in crime news narratives and the multitude of roles they fulfill may help audience members to become informed as well as engaged and to explore their personal emotions, which may ultimately reinforce moral, cultural and societal values.

Gendering in the electoral run: A media monitoring study of women politicians’ representation in Belgian news

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110324
Author(s):  
Joke D’Heer ◽  
Sara De Vuyst ◽  
Sarah Van Leuven
Keyword(s):  
Women Politicians ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Web Based ◽  
News Content ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Monitoring Study ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
Media Monitoring

The present study explores gendered representations in Belgian electoral news coverage. Compared to other Western countries, Belgium has consistently reported a small share of female politicians in the news, offering limited insights into the ways they are portrayed. Starting from the observation that the (mainly Anglo-Saxon) body of work on women politicians’ representation has reported mixed findings, the study intends to provide a more comprehensive analysis by taking political and contextual factors into account. By means of a quantitative content analysis, we monitored news content prior to the 2019 Belgian elections, resulting in a sample of 981 television, newspaper, radio and web-based news items. The findings confirm the persistence of gendered patterns in Belgian news content, regardless of a candidate’s political characteristics. Women were less often represented and their gender, appearance and family life were more often highlighted. Whereas a candidate’s political power provided additional insights into gendering, some differences in coverage between candidates could not be explained by either sex or political characteristics. Lastly, differences between media were limited, though web-based news was more negative in tone.

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