Mainstream Media Recirculation of Trust-Reducing Social Media Messages
| Autor: | John Lovett, John A. Curiel, Devin J. Christensen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science Free press media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Authoritarianism 0211 other engineering and technologies Political communication 02 engineering and technology Public administration Democracy 0506 political science Political science 050602 political science & public administration Institution Mainstream Social media Outrage media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Politics Research. 50:213-226 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3373 1532-673X |
| Popis: | Citizens need to trust in the integrity of news reporting for the free press to fulfill its role as a democratic institution that enables citizens to hold representatives accountable. Growing research has shown that increased use of social media erodes trust in legacy news. However, trust-reducing social media messages are not contained to social media platforms; they are widely recirculated by the mainstream media. We argue that mainstream media corporations select social media messages to recirculate precisely because of their trust-reducing features in order to respond to short-term competitive market incentives. We turn to Donald Trump’s Twitter posts as examples of trust-reducing messages and show that the media cites more trust-reducing messages more quickly and more frequently than less trust-reducing messages. These findings implicate mainstream media corporations alongside social media platforms in the systematic and ongoing degradation of trust in legacy news reporting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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