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This study examines audience perceptions of news during a change in the press system of Taiwan. Because Taiwan has considerably relaxed its censorship of print media, we speculated that people would trust newspapers more than television. Nevertheless, television news, despite its control by government, was viewed as more credible. However, the gap narrowed considerably when people were asked specifically about political news. People also were expected to increasingly distinguish their trust in government from trust in media as they perceived the media-government relationship to be changing from cooperative or controlled to independent or adversarial. Here, the data revealed a balancing phenomenon: people more conscious of diminishing government control over media were more likely to dissociate the two institutions.

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Recent years have seen an increase in political participation among young people worldwide. In light of this heightened political consciousness among youth, the process by which the young might develop political attitudes and become engaged with politics makes a worthy and important research subject. This study thus focuses on whether political socialization by family and peers can affect the online and offline political participation of Singapore youth, also taking into consideration recent changes in the local political environment. The other aspect the study wished to explore whether offline and online news exposure might have a correlation with youth political participation. AC Nielsen Research Pte Ltd. was commissioned to conduct the post-election national telephone survey. Data analysis supported that political socialization by the two sources of family and peers was significantly correlated with young people's political participation in both offline and online forms. In addition, the results indicate that newspaper reading was associated with youth's online political participation but not with their offline political participation. And online news exposure was found to significantly correlate with youth's online political participation. One other result worth mentioning is the positive correlation between mother's education and respondent's offline political participation.