Global Mistrust in News: The Impact of Social Media on Trust

ABSTRACT

Digital platforms such as search engines and social media have become major gateways to news. Algorithms are used to deliver news that is consistent with consumers’ preferences and individuals share news through their online social networks. This networked environment has resulted in growing uncertainty about online information which has had an impact on news industries globally. While it is well established that perceptions of trust in news found on social media or via search engines are lower than traditional news media, there has been less discussion about the impact of social media use on perceptions of trust in the news media more broadly. This study fills that gap by examining the influence of social media as news sources and pathways to news on perceptions of the level of news trust at a country level. A secondary data analysis of a 26-country survey in 2016 and 2019 was conducted. The analysis revealed an increase in social media use for accessing news resulted in a decline in trust in news media generally across the globe. Higher levels of general mistrust in news were related to an increased use of sharing of news. This paper argues the use of social media for news is closely linked to the increase in news mistrust, which is likely to continue to rise as the number of people using social media to access news continues to grow.     

Starting up the News: The Impact of Venture Capital on the Digital News Media Ecosystem

ABSTRACT

Venture capital funding is an increasingly common yet understudied management model in the rapidly changing market of news media. Drawing on scholarship in media management and entrepreneurship, this study applies a community ecology framework to analyze the relationship between venture capital funding and digital news media firms. In doing so, this work explores the interaction between legacy news media firms and new entrants as they struggle for scarce resources and seek to grow in the face of rapid change. A dataset tracking funding activity of legacy and startup news media firms is used to analyze resource allocation within the digital news media ecosystem. Results of the analyses provide insights for news media management by furthering understanding regarding venture capital funding models and the generative mechanisms that help drive growth. Specifically, findings highlight the importance of cross-sector engagement and the tension between firm age and position for growth in the digital news media ecosystem.     

“慢新闻”:传统媒体的应对之道

随着新闻表现形态和传播渠道的日益增加,新闻生产进入了浮躁和迷失交织的时代,信息量在膨胀的同时并没有为我们提供足够的经得起时间考验的时代纪录.很多人淹没在碎片化的信息中难以自拔.因此,新闻传播中的快并非都是优点,慢也并非均是缺点,传统媒体如果能够静下心来以深入的态度、以广阔的视野去描述社会的“画面”,那么这种慢就有可能成为传统媒体应对网络媒体冲击的有效策略.     

媒介生态对新闻成本的影响

媒介生态直接决定一个地区的新闻事业的发展状态,本文着重从“企业经营“角度对新闻机构“事业单位、企业经营“特殊属性的分析.并将新闻视为产品进行研究,引入了成本概念,指出媒介生态对新闻成本的影响,并提出一些参考建议.     

论新闻媒体的人文精神

近年来,我们的新闻媒体在宣传党的方针政策,宣传改革开放的成就,传播先进的思想和人物,提供国内外的政治、经济、文化方面的信息,做了大量有益的工作,这是世人有目共睹的。然而也不可否认.由于市场经济中某些消极因素的影响,新闻界也出现了“有偿新闻”、“虚假新闻”,追逐明星的私人秘闻,热衷于各色各样的新闻商业炒作,甚至毫无节制地渲染和描述各种凶杀暴力案件;而对广大受众迫切需要了解的公共社会事情,往往没有很好地报道反映。本文从解放思想、实事求是的思想路线出发,     

论广东新闻传媒产业在华侨华人文化市场的开拓

广东新闻传媒产业在开拓海外华侨华人文化市场方面具有独特的优势.广东新闻传媒可以通过在华侨华人集中的国家或地区创办新闻媒介、与海外华文媒体开展多元化合作以及与海外非华文媒体合作方式等采开拓海外华侨华人文化市场.     

分众市场中的新广告媒介

本文通过对新广告媒介的界定,介绍了新广告媒介的几种类型,分析了它们涌现的技术、社会、商业原因,归纳了新广告媒介具有的共同特征,指出新广告媒介的出现为广告人拓展了创意空间,也为广告主进行多重传播、优化媒介投放策略、全方位塑造品牌提供了可能。     

Priming and Fake News: The Effects of Elite Discourse on Evaluations of News Media

Fake news has become a prominent topic of public discussion, particularly among elites. Recent research has explored the prevalence of fake news during the 2016 election cycle and possible effects on electoral outcomes. This scholarship has not yet considered how elite discourse surrounding fake news may influence individual perceptions of real news. Through an experiment, this study explores the effects of elite discourse about fake news on the public’s evaluation of news media. Results show that exposure to elite discourse about fake news leads to lower levels of trust in media and less accurate identification of real news. Therefore, frequent discussion of fake news may affect whether individuals trust news media and the standards with which they evaluate it. This discourse may also prompt the dissemination of false information, particularly when fake news is discussed by elites without context and caution.     

新闻媒体绩效考评的悖论

媒介融合直接导致了新闻出版组织结构和生产方式的急剧变化.这种变化使得新闻媒体绩效考评中隐藏的悖论被放大,其中,考评主体、考评方式和考评结果应用的悖论显得尤为突出.文章认为,我国新闻媒体绩效考评主体方面存在着多头考评与媒体法人自主权的悖论,数据考评方式本身存在着公平悖论,考评结果应用方面的片面性和考评信息的多元性形成悖论.     

传统新闻媒体转战社交媒体的内容运营策略--对澎湃新闻微信公众号的内容分析

选取澎湃新闻微信公众号推送讯息作为分析对象,从话题类别、话题关键词、语言风格、情感诉求点及文章来源五个编码类目,分别对《头条》《澎湃思想》《澎湃时局》《澎湃联播》《澎湃打虎》五个分类栏目进行内容分析。在内容分析结果的基础上总结澎湃新闻的产品策略及发展趋势,指出将新闻产品当作朋友圈社交资源、设计用户体验盘活用户关系、精准推送抵达纵深社区三个发展方向。     

Crafting News Narratives on Social Media

Thai news organizations are developing innovative cross-media news strategies and several of these strategies revolve around social media, which are fast becoming a hub for repurposing and extending traditional content. This paper reports on an empirical study conducted by using in-depth interviews with journalists from the social-media teams of three news organizations in Thailand – PPTV HD36, Nation Multimedia Group and Thairath – to analyse storytelling strategies. The key finding shows that cross-media content can extend news coverage to different aspects of a story, to inform and explain issues, and engaging audiences. This study suggests the objective use and design of content by dividing it into four types, based on functions: repurposing, engaging, cross-promoting and extending exclusive content to new-media platforms, so that it is designed with narrative styles that will carry a story across multiple platforms while ensuring that the different aspects and presentations remain connected to the main issue. A clear understanding of the function to be served by content can help newsrooms to plan suitable narrative styles and the sequence in which long-tail journalism is distributed across platforms to ensure that the quality of journalism is upheld in respect of providing a well-rounded coverage of diverse issues.     

新闻媒体融合发展的著作权之维——以聚合类移动新闻客户端为分析样本

新技术的应用触发了不同媒体之间的著作权争端,充分运用著作权许可制度是新闻媒体融合发展的现实需求.为保障新闻媒体融合向纵深发展,著作权制度要坚持基本的价值目标,发挥市场在资源配置中的基础性作用,同时树立互联网思维和大数据思维,在新闻作品著作权归属制度、著作权许可制度和著作权侵权判定标准等方面进行规则创新.     

三维流媒体技术的发展及其对媒体传播的影响

本文认为,三维流媒体作为一种新的媒体传播技术,对传统的媒体传播方式产生了多方面影响,将会受到更多的关注.     

The Hostile Media Phenomenon: Testing the Effect of News Framing on Perceptions of Media Bias

Recent theorizing in hostile media perception (HMP) has focused on the impact of news content on perceptions of media bias. Using a 2 (an outcome frame versus a value frame) × 2 (a societal frame versus an individual frame) experimental design (N = 114), this study examined the differential effects of news frames on perceptions of media bias. The results showed that an outcome frame induced relatively less HMP than a value frame. Further, a societal frame was more likely to elicit HMP than an individual frame when the medical abortion controversy was framed in term of values (vs. outcomes). Directions for future research on the potential impact of news framing on HMP were discussed.     

传媒改制上市的模式创新

本文拟通过对当前文化体制改革过程涌现的各种传媒改制上市模式的分析，在文化体制和资本市场政策的双重框架下，考察传统模式在公司治理要求上的不足，以此为基础寻求媒体改制上市的模式创新，并分析创新模式的合理性与欠缺点，最后讨论了上述创新模式实施的先决条件是媒体外部监管体系的完善。     

新闻公司化与利润最大化

20世纪八九十年代以来 ,传播公司的兼并浪潮此起彼伏 ,三大传播公司相继被收购兼并。本文认为这种媒体高度集中或垄断造成的新闻价值的削弱 ,新闻目标的偏离 ,无论对新闻从业者、受众还是国家而言都是灾难性的 ,因此必须采取必要的措施防范新闻垄断。     

Media Impact

Seven new titles and several “short takes” are described     

传媒并购与反并购

2005年2月19日清晨8时，总部设在上海的盛大交互娱乐有限公司(纳斯达克股票代码SNDA，下称盛大)在其网站和纳斯达克同时发表声明称，截至2月10日，盛大与其控股股东已通过在二级市场的交易，持有新浪公司总计19．5％的股份，并根据美国证券法的规定，向美国证券交易委员会(SEC)提交了受益股权声明13-D文件。在这份文件中，盛大坦承购股的目的是战略投资，并意欲控得实质性所有权(a substantial ownership position)，