Trust in media and government: A recursive model for natives of Hong Kong and Mainland China

McIntyre, Bryce T.

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“…In authoritarian regimes, citizens' perceptions of the reliability of information are tightly linked to trust in government, and both are typically low [8,43,44]. The mainstream broadcast media (TV, radio, print newspapers) are typically not perceived as reliable because they are often pro-government and are restricted through state ownership, licensing, and/or censorship.…”

Section: Information Factors: Availability Reliability Influence Anmentioning

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Media use during conflicts: Information seeking and political efficacy during the 2012 Mexican elections

Kavanaugh

Sheetz

Sandoval‐Almazán

et al. 2016

Government Information Quarterly

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Public access to accurate and reliable information is fundamental to democracy and democratic decision-making. In emerging democracies, during political crises or controversial elections, reliable information is often difficult to obtain. In authoritarian regimes, citizens' perceptions of information reliability are tightly linked to trust in government, and both are typically low. Open government policies help build trust that is essential during protests or contentious elections. Uses and gratifications (U&G) theory states that people use diverse media to try to satisfy their need for reliable information. Gratifying this need is tied to the larger concept of political information efficacy (PIE), i.e., the belief a person holds about him/herself as being politically informed and competent to participate in political thought and action. We investigated these interrelated concepts by administering a survey to an opportunity sample of young adults at a public state university in Mexico. We find that respondents perceived that information from face-to-face and telephone communication with members of their social network, as well as online sources were the most reliable. Information from offline sources, such as TV and newspapers, especially pro-government sources, were the least reliable. Further, the information factors of availability, reliability, influence and sharing had positive relationships with PIE. These results suggest that in conditions of uncertain political information, social networks and online information sources are essential to political information efficacy democratic political participation.

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Media use during conflicts: Information seeking and political efficacy during the 2012 Mexican elections

Kavanaugh

Sheetz

Sandoval‐Almazán

et al. 2016

Government Information Quarterly

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“…As a result, their trust in the two institutions did not correlate. By the same token, McIntyre (1993) found that the correlation of trust in media and trust in Gunther, Hong, and Rodriquez (1994) conducted a similar study in Taiwan and found that trust in government and media was strongly correlated with each other among people who perceived a high degree of government control of the media, while trust in the two institutions was only weakly correlated among people who perceived a low degree of government media control. Recently, Lee, Chan, and So (2005) found a weak-to-moderate association between evaluations of media and government among Hong Kong citizens, even among less-educated people.…”

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Trust in Chinese state media: The influence of education, Internet, and government

Xu¹

2013

Journal of International Communication

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The current study conducted a series of data analyses of the China General Social Survey (CGSS) 2008, the latest national survey of urban and rural households investigating the social structure and quality of life in China. Based on a recently conducted national survey, the study focuses on trust that Chinese citizens place in their state media, and explores the extent to which the trust is influenced by viewers' education, online news exposure, and trust in government. Overall, this study demonstrates a great amount of trust the Chinese people place in state media. The trust is negatively associated with education levels and online news exposure. The correlation between trust in state media and trust in government is higher than the correlation between trust in state media and trust in other two information sources (experts and word-of-mouth communications). There is also a significant interaction between education and evaluation of government. As education level gets higher, the association between evaluation of media and evaluation of the government becomes weaker. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“…In authoritarian regimes, citizens' perceptions of the reliability of information are tightly linked to trust in government and both are typically low [8,40,41]. The mainstream media (TV, radio, print newspapers) are typically not perceived as reliable because they are often pro-government and are restricted through state ownership, licensing and/or censorship.…”

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confidence: 97%

Media use during conflicts

Kavanaugh

Sheetz

Sandoval‐Almazán

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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Public access to accurate and reliable information is fundamental to democracy and democratic decision-making. In conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information, such as during political crises or controversial elections in emerging democracies, reliable information is often difficult to obtain. We investigated the uses and gratifications obtained from diverse information sources available to citizens during the months leading up to Presidential elections in Mexico in July 2012. Uses and gratifications theory states that information seeking is one of several primary needs or motivations for using different media. Reliability of information sources is key to gratification of this need. We conducted a survey about diverse information sources and their reliability with an opportunity sample of young adults at a public state university in Mexico. Our findings indicate that face-to-face and telephone communication with members of a respondent's social network, as well as social media and online news sites, were the most reliable sources of information about the elections. Television broadcasting, especially from government channels, was the least reliable. These results suggest that in conditions of relative uncertainty and imperfect information, social media and alternative (online) news sources about political events are essential to sustaining an informed public.

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Trust in media and government: A recursive model for natives of Hong Kong and Mainland China

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Media use during conflicts: Information seeking and political efficacy during the 2012 Mexican elections

Media use during conflicts: Information seeking and political efficacy during the 2012 Mexican elections

Trust in Chinese state media: The influence of education, Internet, and government

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