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Publications (2)


The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
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November 2024

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Journal of Communication

Richard Fletcher

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Simge Andı

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Sumitra Badrinathan

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 countries to explore how trust in news has changed, while also exploring the links with sociodemographic variables, differences by media system, and changing patterns of news use. We find that (a) there has been a small overall decline in trust in news since 2015, but also that (b) there are different trends in different countries. More specifically, trust has declined more in media environments that have become less structured by television news use, and increasingly structured by social media news use. Our findings underscore how changing structures of media use may be central to explaining trust dynamics in recent years, which suggests new avenues for restoring trust where it has eroded.


Figure 1. Histograms showing proportion in randomly specified right echo chambers.
Figure 2. Histograms showing proportion in randomly specified left echo chambers.
Figure A1. Different outlet slant estimates plotted against our estimates.
Estimated slant of UK news outlets.
Estimated slant of US news outlets.

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How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?
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August 2021

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Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media

Concern over online news echo chambers has been a consistent theme in recent debates on how people get news and information. Yet, we lack a basic descriptive understanding of how many people occupy bounded online news spaces in different countries. Using online survey data from seven countries we find that (i) politically partisan left-right online news echo chambers are real, but only a minority of approximately 5% of internet news users inhabit them, (ii) in every country covered, more people consume no online news at all than occupy partisan online echo chambers, and (iii) except for the US, decisions over the inclusion or exclusion of particular news outlets make little difference to echo chamber estimates. Differences within and between media systems mean we should be very cautious about direct comparisons between different echo chambers, but underlying patterns of audience overlap, and the continued popularity of mainstream outlets, often preclude the formation of large partisan echo chambers.

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... Unlike the older generation, both Gen Z and Millennials use Facebook as primary source for news and are more skeptical towards traditional mainstream news platforms (Anderson et al., 2021). However, their trust in the social media content also varies greatly owing to the misinformation and biases in news coverage (Fletcher et al., 2021). In this context, Gen-Z understands credibility of news to a lesser extent than Millennials as the latter had more exposure to the traditional media than former and therefore the former is more susceptible to consuming dubious news content on such platforms due to their lesser media literacy. ...

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NEWS TRUST AND ENGAGEMENT ON FACEBOOK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GEN Z AND MILLENNIALS IN URBAN PAKISTAN Corresponding Author: *
How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?

Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media