Journal ArticleDOI
Public Trust or Mistrust? Perceptions of Media Credibility in the Information Age
TLDR
For instance, this paper found that people are generally skeptical of news emanating from all three media channels but do rate newspapers with the highest credibility, followed by online news and television news, respectively.Abstract:
This article explores perceptions of news credibility for television, newspapers, and online news. A survey was administered to a randomly selected sample of residents in Austin, Texas, to assess people's attitudes toward these 3 media channels. Contingent factors that might influence news credibility perceptions, such as media use and interpersonal discussion of news, were incorporated into the analysis. Findings suggest that people are generally skeptical of news emanating from all 3 media channels but do rate newspapers with the highest credibility, followed by online news and television news, respectively. Furthermore, opinions about news credibility seem to be correlated across media outlets. The data also show a moderate negative linkage between interpersonal discussion of news and perceptions of media credibility for television news but not for newspapers. When controlling for basic demographics, a positive correlation was found between interpersonal communication and online news credibility. Final...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users
TL;DR: The degree to which reliance on Weblogs as well as traditional and online media sources predicts credibility of Weblogs after controlling for demographic and political factors is explored.
Journal ArticleDOI
The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information
TL;DR: Perceptions of credibility differed, such that news organization websites were rated highest and personal websites lowest, in terms of message, sponsor, and overall site credibility, with e-commerce and special interest sites rated between these, for the most part.
Journal ArticleDOI
Credibility for the 21st Century: Integrating Perspectives on Source, Message, and Media Credibility in the Contemporary Media Environment
TL;DR: This paper reviewed, synthesized, and integrated the substantial literature on source, message, and media credibility; addresses issues of credibility conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement; suggests strategies to...
Journal ArticleDOI
Avoidance Of Advertising In Social Networking Sites: The Teenage Perspective
TL;DR: This paper examined the antecedents of advertising avoidance on online social networking sites, leading to the development of a model that suggests that advertising in the online social network environment is more likely to be avoided if the user has expectations of a negative experience, the advertising is not relevant to the user, the user is skeptical toward the advertising message, or the consumer is skeptical towards the advertising medium.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness
Carl I. Hovland,Walter Weiss +1 more
Book
Multiple Comparison Procedures
Yosef Hochberg,Ajit C. Tamhane +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of multiple comparison problems is presented, along with a procedure for pairwise and more general comparisons among all treatments among all the treatments in a clinical trial.