Moving Closer to the Action: How Viewers’ Experiences of Eyewitness Videos in TV News Influence the Trustworthiness of the Reports

Halfmann, Annabell; Dech, Helena; Riemann, Jana; Schlenker, Leonie; Weßler, Hartmut

doi:10.1177/1077699018785890

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“…By increasing transparency and including eyewitness videos, information providers earn more trust among the viewing audience. In a previous study examining the conflict in Ukraine in the TV news, analysts found that eyewitness videos affect perceptions of trustworthiness through "feelings of presence and empathy as well as perceptions of authenticity and bias" [Halfmann et al, 2019].…”

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confidence: 99%

The landscape of disinformation on health crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine: hybrid warfare tactics, fake media news and review of evidence

Patel¹,

Moncayo²,

Conroy³

et al. 2020

JCOM

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world in ways not seen since the 1918–1920 Spanish Flu. Disinformation campaigns targeting health crisis communication during this pandemic seek to cripple the medical response to the novel coronavirus and instrumentalize the pandemic for political purposes. Propaganda from Russia and other factions is increasingly infiltrating public and social media in Ukraine. Still, scientific literature has only a limited amount of evidence of hybrid attacks and disinformation campaigns focusing on COVID-19 in Ukraine. We conducted a review to retrospectively examine reports of disinformation surrounding health crisis communication in Ukraine during the COVID-19 response. Based on the themes that emerged in the literature, our recommendations are twofold: 1) increase transparency with verified health crisis messaging and, 2) address the leadership gap in reliable regional information about COVID-19 resources and support in Ukraine.

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confidence: 99%

The landscape of disinformation on health crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine: hybrid warfare tactics, fake media news and review of evidence

Patel¹,

Moncayo²,

Conroy³

et al. 2020

JCOM

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“…By 2020, the focus of trustworthiness research is mainly on experiences, mechanisms, individual differences, testimony, and quality. For example, how the audience's experience of sighting video in TV news affects the trustworthiness of reports (e.g., Halfmann et al, 2019); trust behavior and brain neurons (e.g., Wang et al, 2018;Zebrowitz et al, 2018). As of 2023, the current research focus has changed to health, determinants, race, time, culture, automation, acceptance, distrust, and scale.…”

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Visual analysis of trustworthiness studies: based on the Web of Science database

Zhang,

Deng,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Trustworthiness is the most significant predictor of trust and has a significant impact on people’s levels of trust. Most trustworthiness–related research is empirical, and while it has a long history, it is challenging for academics to get insights that are applicable to their fields of study and to successfully transfer fragmented results into practice. In order to grasp their dynamic development processes through the mapping of network knowledge graphs, this paper is based on the Web of Science database and uses CiteSpace (6.2.R4) software to compile and visualize the 1,463 publications on trustworthy studies over the past 10 years. This paper aims to provide valuable references to theoretical research and the practice of Trustworthiness. The findings demonstrate that: over the past 10 years, trustworthiness-related research has generally increased in volume; trustworthiness research is concentrated in industrialized Europe and America, with American research findings having a bigger global impact; The University of California System, Harvard University, and Yale University are among the high-production institutions; the leading figures are represented by Alexander Todorov, Marco Brambilla, Bastian Jaeger, and others; the core authors are distinguished university scholars; however, the level of cooperation of the core author needs to be improved. The primary journal for publishing research on trustworthiness is the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Biology Letters. In addition, the study focuses on three distinct domains, involving social perception, facial clues, and artificial intelligence.

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“…It does so by providing alternative voices to a story, bringing new stories to journalists' attention, and by enabling journalists to report on developing stories without being in the vicinity themselves (Hellmueller & Li, 2015;Kleemans, Schaap, & Hermans, 2015;McNair, 2013). Also, perceptions of authenticity and presence increase due to the integration of eyewitness videos (Halfmann et al, 2018). On the other hand, UGC can have a detrimental effect on the audience's perception of correctness and verifiability of information as well as of the reliability of sources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Scholars and practitioners alike question the adequacy of social media as a source for journalism (Lewis & Molyneux, 2018), journalists struggle with the authenticity and impact of UGC (Murrell, 2018) and recipients are skeptical about including the audience in the process (Karlsson, Clerwall, & Nord, 2018). This might be the reason why UGC does not seem to directly increase journalistic trustworthiness (Grosser, Hase, & Wintterlin, 2019;Halfmann, Dech, Riemann, Schlenker, & Wessler, 2018).…”

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Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

Wintterlin¹,

Engelke²,

Hase³

2020

SCM

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In a digital world, journalists increasingly integrate user-generated content (UGC) in their coverage. Journalists use coping strategies to dispel the audience’s supposed concerns about the reliability of this new type of sources and to maintain the audience’s confidence in such coverage. Transparency, in particular, is often considered as a means to preserve journalism from accusations of being biased and untrustworthy. We focus on the audience’s perception and evaluation of two transparency strategies: transparency about the origin of UGC and transparency about verification attempts. Based on semi-structured interviews with German users (N = 26), this study analyzes recipients’ perceptions of transparency strategies journalists use when integrating UGC. Most of the respondents rarely perceive transparency about source origin or verification in their everyday media use. Even when noticed, transparency efforts barely seem to increase journalistic trustworthiness.

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Moving Closer to the Action: How Viewers’ Experiences of Eyewitness Videos in TV News Influence the Trustworthiness of the Reports

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

The landscape of disinformation on health crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine: hybrid warfare tactics, fake media news and review of evidence

The landscape of disinformation on health crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine: hybrid warfare tactics, fake media news and review of evidence

Visual analysis of trustworthiness studies: based on the Web of Science database

Can transparency preserve journalism’s trustworthiness? Recipients’ views on transparency about source origin and verification regarding user-generated content in the news

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