What Does It Mean to Trust the Media?
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What Does It Mean to Trust the Media?
Original language description
This chapter explores the meaning of 'trust' and argues that the audience's trust in media must be conceptually re-considered. Drawing on a systematic understanding of how trust is constructed in various instances of the communication chain, and the philosophical and sociological debates on audiences' trust in journalism and informational media, we examine the exchange of trust between audiences and media outlets. To do so, we argue that it is helpful to conceptualise audience-media relations on a scalewith six levels, dealing with a relatively unconscious confidence in technology, institution and genre, and a more conscious investment of trust (or not) in content, journalists and amateur producers. The transformation of trust relations in Europe goesin the direction of greater reliance on personal trust-relations, while what might be called confidence-relations are becoming less prominent. This change is in large part due to the increase in layperson participation in digital media o
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LD11075" target="_blank" >LD11075: Post-socialist media audiences: political aspects of popular uses of Czech media culture</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
ISBN
978-0-415-82736-2
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
228-244
Number of pages of the book
276
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
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