期刊
JOURNALISM
卷 24, 期 3, 页码 457-474出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/14648849211048961
关键词
journalism; trust; infrastructure; STS; news funding; analytics
Trust is crucial in the news ecosystem, impacting not only audience attitudes but also the funding, production, circulation, and audience measurement of news. By conceptualizing trust from an infrastructural perspective, a better understanding of the consequences of distrust in news can be achieved.
Given the necessity of trust to the fulfillment of the news media's democratic and civic roles, the decline of trust in the news has become a major theme in journalism and communication studies, with researchers typically focusing on news audiences and measuring attitudes toward news products. Alongside the importance of reception, this paper advocates for conceptualizing trust not solely as a response to news, but as a key component in the infrastructure that makes news possible. Through an exploration of the role of trust at every stage of the newsmaking process, we argue that trust structures and underpins news funding, production, circulation, and audience measurement. Expanding the conceptual framework through which trust is assessed to consider its infrastructural role affords greater clarity on the consequences of distrust in news. We highlight future research directions and areas of inquiry made possible by theorizing trust in news in this way.
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