Is Trust in Media Decreasing? Evidence from the World Values Survey

Shirikov, Anton

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3754404

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“…Newly available cross‐national data such as the World Value Survey (WVS) and ABS allow analyses of the variance in the extent of trust in mass media from a comparative perspective and investigation into how contextual factors are associated with media credibility. For instance, Shirikov (2020) studied WVS data and concluded that there is no significant decline in media trust among stable democracies, but this is not the case in democratizing countries and in countries that have undergone substantial political reform. Tsfati and Ariely (2014) examined media trust in 44 countries and found that the degree of country‐level postmaterialism is significantly associated with trust in media, and state ownership of television has different associations with media trust in different regimes.…”

Section: Studies Of Media Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

The political foundation of mainstream media trust in East and Southeast Asia: A cross‐national analysis

Chang,

Tang

2023

Asian Politics and Policy

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Declining levels of trust in the media in Western democracies have drawn the attention of political scientists, but much less attention has been paid to East Asia. This paper sets out to examine the logic behind media trust in three different types of regimes in East and Southeast Asia: countries with, partial, and no press freedom, respectively. Our findings show that while respondents' trust in government and support for socioideological control of the government have consistent and significant associations with their media trust across all 12 countries, Internet usage, online political participation, support for media censorship, and patriotic belief have different associations with the variable being studied as the degree of press freedom varies. The findings indicate that citizens are well aware of the role mass media plays in the political system and thus their trust in the media reflects the expectation‐perception gap of the government‐media relationship accordingly.

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Section: Studies Of Media Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%