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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mangold, Frank
• Bachl, Marko
• Prochazka, Fabian

Titel

How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective

Ist Teil von

• Journalism & mass communication quarterly, 2022-06, p.107769902211005

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations) across journalistic media, social media, and peers to reflect the multiplicity among modern news audiences. A latent class analysis of a representative survey among German young adults revealed four figurations: traditionalists, indifferentials, optimists, and cynics. Political characteristics and education corresponded with substantial heterogeneity in individuals’ trust in news sources, their inclination to differentiate between sources, and the ways of integrating trust in journalistic and non-journalistic sources.