SLAVÍK, Lukáš and Jakub MACEK. Fragmented Media Environment and Trust in Media: Measuring Affective and Reflexive Trust in Media. In 12th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference 2019. 2019.
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Original name Fragmented Media Environment and Trust in Media: Measuring Affective and Reflexive Trust in Media
Authors SLAVÍK, Lukáš and Jakub MACEK.
Edition 12th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference 2019, 2019.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 50802 Media and socio-cultural communication
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D., učo 14931. Changed: 28/11/2019 15:08.
Abstract
The presentation drawing on research project held by Masaryk University (Czech Republic) focuses on the topic of trust media and on the main theoretical and conceptual challenges linked with this topic and rising from the major changes both of audiences’ practices and media environments. News audiences and media environment are transformed by ongoing processes of fragmentation and diversification. Recipients consume news from professional and alternative media (Tsfati, Ariely 2014; Macek et al. 2018) and recirculate news through online platforms (Tewksbury, Rittenberg 2012). These tendencies undermine information and symbolic authority of professional news media (McQuail 2013). Historically, prevailing measures of trust in media are undertheorized and oversimplified and, at the same time, they face validity issues in the current situation as they do not reflect the fragmented and multivocal character of contemporary media environments (Fischer 2016). Contribution presents results of statistical tests of an innovative quantitative tool for assessment general and particular trust in professional and alternative news media which has been developed for fragmented media environments. This measure drawing on Gidden’s notion of trust (Giddens 1990) acknowledges hybrid nature of social trust and, as such, it is focused on reflexive (based on expectation of professionalism of news media) and also affective (based on need to meet to “my” worldview) trust. The proposed measure was tested in survey on Czech youth population carried in CATCH EyoU project (Horizon 2020). The presentation will focus on preliminary exploratory evidence about function and consistency of this measure as well as on its theoretical grounds and its advantages.
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GA19-09103S, research and development projectName: Důvěra v média ve fragmentovaném mediálním prostředí: Případ České republiky
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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