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Effects of Editorial Media Bias Perception and Media Trust on the Use of Traditional, Citizen, and Social Media News

Ardèvol-Abreu, Alberto, Gil de Zúñiga, Homero·2017·Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
DOI 10.1177/1077699016654684
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Citizens’ levels of mistrust toward the media, as well as their perception of media bias, have increased in past years in most Western democracies. This study explores how these negative observations on journalism may influence their use of traditional, citizen, and social media for news. Drawing on two-wave U.S. panel data, results suggest that media trust and perceived bias relate to media consumption differently. Trust in social and citizen media positively predicts use of news via social media, but has no effect on traditional or citizen news use. By contrast, perceived media bias is associated with decreased news use overall.

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  • Trust in information on social media and trust in social media platforms both play a role in increasing people's use of social media.

    “The studies in our corpus show that trust in the information on social media [2,65], as well as trust in the social media platforms themselves [33,79], both play a role in increasing people's use of social media.”

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Authors
Ardèvol-Abreu, A., & Gil de Zúñiga, H.
Affiliations
University of Vienna, Austria
Venue
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2016-06-27
Volume
94
Issue
3
Pages
703-724
ISSN
  • 1077-6990 (ISSN-L)
  • 2161-430X
DOI
10.1177/1077699016654684
OpenAlex
W2474563622
Cited by
153
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2
FWCI
18.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
Keywords
media bias perception, media trust, news consumption, social media news, citizen journalism, traditional news media, media distrust

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