Media Credibility Research Articles

AGAMA DAN MEDIA: PEMAKNAAN ISU AGAMA DI ‘DETIKNEWS’

Media has a significant role in strengthening Indonesia's democracy but problematic in writing religions issues. More people are respecting media credibility rather than political branch of power such as parliament, executive or legislative institutions. In the mids of media popularity, it is important to scrutinize online media performance because of its tendency, as well as television media, to focus on selling news for profit. Religious issue has been written more on its sensationality rather than meaningfully. Seven stories of Detiknews were observed of its title, key words and discussion based on journalism perspective. The study shows that Detiknews preferred to write sensational titles, immediacy and less accuracy.

The media freedom-credibility paradox

News media in democratic states have been ascribed the important roles of disseminating information, providing a space for deliberation, and being a watchdog of the government. According to the libertarian theory of the press, a free press will engender a greater pluralism of information and opinions. An assumption that underpins free media is that citizens will have a high opinion of the media’s honesty, integrity, and responsibility. However, recent polls challenge this assumption. In the US, Gallup polls indicate that citizens’ trust in media is low despite the freedom accorded to the media. This paper focuses on what the authors call “The Media Freedom-Credibility Paradox” of media globally, meaning a free media is not necessarily a credible media. Using international scales from the Freedom House, Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) Media Sustainability Index, and the Gallup poll, our analysis showed that there is no positive correlation between various global rankings of media freedom and rankings of credibility and trust in media. While greater human development and better governance were linked to more media freedom, they were not linked to more media credibility. This paper discusses these counterintuitive findings and present other variables that impact media credibility.

Modeling Rumors in Twitter

With the advent of web 2.0 and anonymous free Internet services available to almost everyone, social media has gained immense popularity in disseminating information. It has become an effective channel for advertising and viral marketing. People rely on social networks for news, communication and it has become an integral part of our daily lives. But due to the limited accountability of users, it is often misused for the spread of rumors. Such rumor diffusion hampers the credibility of social media and may spread social panic. Analyzing rumors in social media has gained immense attention from the researchers in the past decade. In this paper the authors provide a survey of work in rumor analysis, which will serve as a stepping-stone for new researchers. They organized the study of rumors into four categories and discussed state of the art papers in each with an in-depth analysis of results of different models used and a comparative analysis between approaches used by different authors.

A Tale of Two Sources in Native Advertising

In the strategic communication field, native advertising has been hailed as the next big trend. However, this type of marketing technique may negatively affect the perceptions of brands as well as media outlets that provide such content due to its obscurity of persuasive intent and ambiguity of the content source. The current study examined these issues by conducting a 2 (priming: presence vs. absence) × 2 (media credibility: high vs. low) × 2 (corporate credibility: high vs. low) factorial between-subjects experiment. A total of 500 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk completed the online experiment. Findings suggested that priming of native advertising information would significantly improve users’ ad recognition and change their content perception. In addition, a series of three-way interaction effects suggested that the interaction between the two types of source credibility (media and corporate) tend to work as a function of priming of native advertising information, which could completely change individuals’ perception of the ad content and evaluation of the media source in the future, but not their future corporate evaluation. Important theoretical as well as practical implications have also been discussed in this article.

당신은 왜 팟캐스트 서비스를 사용하는가? : UTAUT 모형

This study investigated factors affecting the use intention of podcast service users based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition, hedonic motivation, innovativeness, and media credibility were used as independent variables in the model. The survey data from the users of the podcast portal 'podbbang' were analyzed with Smart PLS 2.0 to test the structural equation model. The results revealed that the podcast service user's effort expectancy, facilitating condition, hedonic motivation, and media credibility have a significant influence on use intention. However, the relationship between the podcast service user's performance expectancy, social influence, innovativeness, and use intention were not identified as significant.

Consumer awareness and credibility factors of health claims on innovative meat products in a cross-sectional population study in the Netherlands

Meat consumption-associated cancer risks relating to the preservative nitrate are receiving considerable attention. Consequently, innovative meat products are being developed with no or reduced nitrate levels. For example, phytochemicals are currently under investigation for their potential to replace nitrate in meat. Consumers are becoming more aware of health aspects of consumed foods, a trend which is accompanied by an increase in health claims on food products. However, consumer acceptance of a health claim is dependent on consumer credibility of the claim. In order to produce a health claim, perceived credible by consumers, it should be known which factors influence consumer credibility. This pilot study investigated the extent to which consumers perceive health claims on innovative meat products credible and which factors influence this credibility. By means of a questionnaire distributed amongst 1010 Dutch participants representative of the Dutch population, factors like health claim promoters, media platforms, and the phrasing of the proposed health claim were investigated. Main results are that the majority of consumers indicates meat products with phytochemicals as acceptable. Promotion by a national health foundation is perceived as credible, and health magazines are perceived as a credible media platform. This study found that neither weekly meat consumption, sex, nor age have effect on the consumer credibility of certain health claims, but that educational level does.

News televisions’ impact on political discourse in the Indian election 2014

Abstract The Indian national election of 2014 has been studied intensely mainly because of the scale of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) victory and the ingenious ways new technologies were employed for political communication. The role of news television in democratic politics has been questioned in the context of Indian media’s unbridled efforts towards profit-maximization since private television began in the 1990s, and the impact of these efforts on media credibility. This article asserts that television still shapes and directs political discourse, even in the age of new technologies, but that the role of news television in political communication needs to be rethought. It argues that the evaluation of news television’s agenda setting functions must be placed not only within the context of the dramatic changes that have swept the Indian media landscape but within broader changes in the political and social environments. A critical discourse analysis of Frankly Speaking, the popular weekly political interviews shown on the English news channel Times Now, reveals the subtle ways by which television transfers salience from the media’s agenda to the public agenda.

Outsourced Credibility?

This study tests the assumption that outsourcing copy editing harms accuracy. Authors content analyzed all corrected errors in five newspapers in a full year both before and after outsourcing of all copy editing (N = 3255), while controlling for newspapers’ circulation during the two-year period. Literature on media credibility informs the analyses. Five daily newspapers in the United States and Canada have outsourced all copy editing either to parent-company editing centers in other states or cities (Hartford Courant, CT; Raleigh News & Observer, NC; Winston-Salem Journal, NC; Daily Press, Newport News, VA) or a commercial firm external to the newspaper company but based in the same city (Toronto Star). Results are mixed but do not generally support the suppositions of some industry observers that outsourcing copy editing uniformly harms accuracy. The Daily Press experienced a significant increase in accuracy, that is, a fall in average daily corrections. Average corrections did rise significantly at the News & Observer, but were unchanged at the other newspapers. In terms of specific corrections, mathematical errors at the newspapers decreased after outsourcing, while visual and layout errors rose.

Periodismo y vitamina I

Faced with the lost value of information that was traditionally produced by the press, audiences are now turning to social networks and interacting with the news in new ways. And, as a result, the low credibility of the Spanish media is negated by diversifying the sources for news information as people turn to their trusted gatekeeping “friends” who act as watchdogs of the fourth estate. For the moment this new relationship with social media does not mean a distancing from the news produced by professional journalists, but it does require that the media take steps to overcome the perceived loss in value of the information they produce.

What are shaping the ethical bottom line?: Identifying factors influencing young readers’ acceptance of digital news photo alteration

While most research on digital ethics has focused on professional codes or case studies in manipulation, there has been little formal research on what the readers thinks about what is and what is not visually ethical in a digital age. This study examines what affect young readers’ acceptance or rejection of digital alteration of news images. The major finding is that the perceived prevalence of photo alteration, media credibility, and personal Photoshop use and knowledge are the major influencers of “non-professional” standards of acceptance of photo alteration. The study implies the necessity of intervention from scholars, media professionals, and ethical activists to discuss photo alteration and advocate ethical standards for it.

Estado de la credibilidad de medios en Ecuador

El artículo recoge los datos de la encuesta anual, hasta 2014, realizada en Ecuador, acerca de la credibilidad de medios y periodistas. La credibilidad es de actualidad en Ecuador, ya que las leyes y la crítica gubernamental han puesto en tensión al campo de medios de comunicación. Los datos reflejan variabilidad con respecto la coyuntura política. Es así que la televisión tiene credibilidad, mientras que la prensa ha debido cambiar sus estrategias, optimizando sus índices. Los periodistas de televisión, igualmente, tienen mejor posición que aquellos que trabajan en otros sectores de medios, notándose índices bajos. Hay problemas de independencia, imparcialidad, transparencia, entre otros, hechos que afectan la percepción de la opinión pública ecuatoriana.

A World of Information at Their Fingertips: College Students’ Motivations and Practices in Their Self-Determined Information Seeking

People frequently engage in the process of “heutagogy” (i.e., self-determined learning). Unlike pedagogy and andragogy, heutagogy occurs without a structure or leader setting the context and directing the learning toward a specific goal. The lack of structure and the possible self-determination of topic, value, source, and trust in information led us to wonder about the motivations, goals, and processes considered by college students as they engage in self-determined learning. We conducted a survey with 83 American college students regarding their information-seeking preferences and behaviors. Some students reported accessing different media depending on what information they were seeking, while others sought multiple forms of information from the same media. Family and community influenced their trust in media, yet they also recognized experts and data as important justifications for credibility of media. We exposed some relationships among personal characteristics, perceptions of information, and self-determined learning activities. We conclude with implications and directions for future research.

TRENDS IN STRATEGIC MEDIA MANAGEMENT IN ZAMBIA: THE POSITION OF EDITORIAL CREDIBILITY IN NEWSPAPERS

The liberalisation of the Zambian political and economic environment appeared to have transformed the media industry. For some time, the prospects of the media business looked bright but the government did not fully fulfil its liberalisation promises (Phiri, 1999). As a result, m edia organisations, especially newspapers in the country, continued facing many challenges related to financial sustainability. Newspaper organisations are battling for market and it has become extremely difficult to survive solely from producing and selling media products because the cost of production and distribution keeps increasing. The need to sustain themselves in the prevailing political and economic trends has forced newspaper organisations to pursue other strategic objectives by venturing into more profitable business portfolios. This also implies redefining management strategies in order to not only find their niche, but to also determine their very survival. This article argues that these ‘extra’ strategic objectives come at the expense of editorial quality, and negatively affect the credibility of newspapers. It integrates strategic management approaches into political economy of communication analysis to argue that editorial integrity and media credibility are core resources that can be exploited into a competitive advantage of a media firm.

ADVERTISING CREDIBILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT MEDIA CHANNELS

In the field of communication, researchers are primarily interested in finding out about people’s choices of media such as television, newspapers, magazines, online news, etc. Perceptions of the reliability and trustworthiness may be significantly affected by the selection of information sources and credibility can be suggested as one of the factors driving the traffic of individuals to certain media. The concept of credibility is not new and has been studied in the ancient Greece – how the speakers persuade audience members. However, studies of the credibility of mass media began interesting in times when the rising number of people started turning to radio for news instead of newspapers. Another change was brought by television and in the last decade of the 20th century, rise of the Internet has led to recent credibility studies comparing traditional sources with this emerging medium. The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences in advertising credibility perception across different media channels – television, newspapers and the Internet and determine if the medium of delivery has an impact on credibility assessment of advertising. The results showed overall moderate credibility of all the media but newspapers have shown the highest overall credibility, followed by the Internet and television, respectively. Advertising credibility was higher in traditional media than in the Internet. Negative attitudes were the highest in the online channels and the most credible advertising channel was the television. The results indicated there is no relationship between the medium credibility and credibility of advertising. Communication to audiences requires an exploration of trustworthiness in order to formulate correct strategies. By recognizing the credibility of the advertisements and the media in which they are placed, the findings can be considered for attracting audiences. Keywords : Advertising, credibility, media.

Impact of Electronic Media on Purchasing Decision among Youths with Special Reference to Fairness Cream

A rapid advancement in the Electronic Technology in sharing the information and its wide reach in Lucknow city helps in promoting the products and making buying decision. Electronic media such as Television (TV), Radio, Internet are providing the innovative ways to approach customers. Television and Radio being the mass media instruments for promoting the product not only for literates but illiterates as well. Youths are now accessing internet through different medium such as laptop, personal computer, mobile, tablets which provides marketers an easy way to approach them. A sample of 180 youths was selected for the study from Lucknow city. On the basis of collected data, we examined the impact of electronic media for fairness cream on the youths since they are more concerned about their skin complexion. The study also examines the gender wise opinion for electronic media in their buying decision and the perceived credibility of electronic media.

Perspectives and Attitudes on the Credibility of News on Social Networking (SNSS) Sites: Urgent Need of Research Work

The role of journalists, and journalism has progressed into a more digitalized journalism. Social Networking Sites (SNSs) allow people to take part in online activities and remove the barrier for online users to publish and share information at any place at any time. Among various social media, this review limits its review scope to SNSs, which have been considered to be the most pertinent social medium used in the field of communication management.This paper intends to show that credibility of social media is the key factor that enhances public engagement and communication effectiveness in the digital/social media.This paper is intended to elicit the factors that could affect the credibility of news from SNSs.Specifically, this article reviews on the needs to study journalist perspectives and attitudes on the credibility of news published on SNSs sites, and found few variables that could affect the credibility of the media and the news, which is linked to journalistic work. These include: the interactive media, technology acceptance, quality of news’ source, and the exposure of the media.The review of the literature suggests the dire research needs to focus on journalists’ perspectives and attitudes towards the new media to ensure credibility of news and journalism is continuously sustained and improved.

Risk perception of food safety issue on social media

This study aims to investigate individuals’ risk perceptions of food safety by extending the heuristic and systematic information processing model (HSM) to the social media context. Specifically, we examine the predictors of risk perceptions of food safety, including social media attention, social media credibility, as well as systematic and heuristic processing. A convenient sample of 640 adults was collected in China. Structural equation modeling was used to test the effects of social media attention and social media credibility on public risk perceptions of food safety, with information processing as mediating factors. The findings indicated that social media attention and social media credibility motivate systematic processing, which in turn promote risk perception of food safety. However, the mediating effect of heuristic processing was not found. Implications for theory and practice were discussed.

Measuring Message Credibility

Despite calls to conceptualize credibility as three separate concepts—source credibility, message credibility, and media credibility—there exists no scale that exclusively measures message credibility. To address this gap, the current study constructs and validates a new scale. Results from a confirmatory factor analysis suggest that message credibility, specifically in the context of news, can be measured by asking participants to rate how well three adjectives describe content: accurate, authentic, and believable. Validity and reliability tests are reported, and contributions to credibility research are discussed.

The Use of Social Media Among Qatari Youth During Crises- A Survey

In this paper, secondary crisis communication have been analyzed with respect to the effects of traditional media vs new media tools during the times of crises. The results confirms the strong relationship between the variables of SMCC model- Social Mediated Crisis Communication model. As the model highlighted the importance of word of mouth during crisis time, the results testing the cognitive dimension of acquiring news and updates indicated that the major source of information about the true crisis that happened before conducting the research was “friends and family” and social media –via what’s app and BBM. When testing the affective dimension, comparing traditional media to social media in terms of trustworthiness, the traditional media won over social media. Word of mouth also plays an important role in evaluating news as trustworthy. The direct and indirect channels of communication that transfer information about crisis appeared in testing the behavioral component of the information processing, where information is processed either directly by the receiver through social media or traditional media, or indirectly via inactive users who receive information reported by followers via twitter or Facebook or what’s app. The above mentioned results point to the need to extend crisis communication theories and shed more light on the mediated role of social networking sites in crisis communication as a shift from one to many communication mode to many to many communication mode. There are many intervening variables in the process of new media crisis communication that need to be examined and experimented such as interpretations use experiences (Schultz et al.,2011) in addition to users’ evaluation of medium credibility and the overall communication environment. Integration of social media into crisis and risk communication is crucial for crisis management, but it needs to be well planned. Using social media has the advantage of gaining fast information that would reduce rumors, but it has to be well planned to gain trust and credibility Having a comparison of a non-crisis information seeking situation builds the credibility of the results in times information seeking during crisis situations. The findings of this study have practical implications when designing communication strategies for government and organizations during emerging crisis situations. Using social media would result in a more positive evaluation of the situation, and achieving higher levels of awareness when information dissemination is needed. Communication of consistent messages via social networking sites in line with traditional media forms could assist in limiting rumors and achieve news credibility.

Anti-social media: executive Twitter “engagement” and attitudes about media credibility

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take the results of two studies to hypothesize about practice and recommend research/debate on business leaders’ use and perceptions of social media. Data were considered under the umbrella of current senior management practice, with the purpose to make suggestions for better practice, but primarily to theorize about the probable evolution of social media value and credibility for executives. Design/methodology/approach – The first study presents results from a qualitative content analysis of Fortune and Inc. 500 CEOs’ use of Twitter in terms of: activity and engagement; tweet subject matter; frequency of opinions expressed; and level of formality. The second considers the credibility of social media against traditional media and personal information sources within one quantitative survey. Findings – Senior executives using social media (Twitter) tend to engage in one-sided conversations in a two-way medium. Further, most CEOs appear to be using more formal language than general Twitter users. These factors, combined with the low credibility and value of social media by senior managers, may indicate the best future hope for social media credibility with executives will be neutral. Practical implications – In examining a combination of current literature and the data from these separate studies, the authors posit a number of underlying challenges in realizing the potential of the evolving social media environment that may deserve specific research. Originality/value – Discussion touches on implications for future adoption of social media tools by business leaders, as well as one-way vs two-way communication tendencies. This paper proposes a starting-point for theory development regarding this significant emerging area of communication.