Media trust under threat: Antecedents and consequences of misinformation perceptions on social media

Autor(en)

Marlis Stubenvoll, Raffael Heiss, Jörg Matthes

Abstrakt

Public concern over misinformation has reached worrying levels in recent years. This phenomenon stimulates a climate of information uncertainty under which individuals may also question high-quality information that is needed to sustain meaningful political debates. To address this issue, this panel study investigates antecedents of perceived misinformation exposure on social media and its consequences for media trust. We take a novel approach by examining 3 key factors that might lead to heightened perceived misinformation exposure (PME) among social media users: (1) their political knowledge, (2) their partisan strength, and (3) network characteristics. Even more importantly, we find that PME decreases media trust, and that this effect was especially pronounced among individuals with low political knowledge.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

MCI Management Center Innsbruck

Journal

International Journal of Communication (IJoC)

Band

15

Seiten

2765-2786

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

1932-8036

Publikationsdatum

2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/media-trust-under-threat-antecedents-and-consequences-of-misinformation-perceptions-on-social-media(09c105b1-f81a-4dad-9f41-eb02848ec3a4).html