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Do People Watch what they Do Not Trust?: Exploring the Association between News Media Skepticism and Exposure
Abstract
This article explores a possible association between skepticism toward the media and audience exposure patterns. Hypotheses predicting a relationship between media skepticism and news media consumption are tested on four large sample data sets. Findings show that media skepticism is negatively associated with mainstream news exposure but positively associated with nonmainstream news exposure.
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“Literature suggest that people tend to pay more attention to media platforms they trust and consume media contents that align with their predispositions, while avoiding media they distrust (Kiousis, 2001; Tsfati & Cappella, 2003), affirming the principle of selective exposure.”
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“People’s trust in media is also influenced by a source’s credibility, meaning its perceived fairness, bias, and accuracy (Bode, 2012; Kang et al., 2011; Luo et al., 2020; Metzger et al., 2010; Sterrett et al., 2019; Tandoc, 2019; Tsfati & Cappella, 2003).”
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- Authors
- Tsfati, Y., & Cappella, J. N.
- Venue
- Communication Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 504-529
- ISSN
- 0093-6502 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3810
- OpenAlex
- W2134594810
- Cited by
- 638
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 15.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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