Do People Watch what they Do Not Trust?

By Yariv Tsfati, Joseph N. Cappella. Communication Research, 2003

620 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/07c7b2db4da102a62db9082cfb6a22c0a35c8b43

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Artificial Intelligence

In Communication

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework (2018, background): “Thus, from studies of media credibility, scholars have also focused on media skepticism, which refers to the “subjective feeling of mistrust toward the mainstream news media” (Tsfati and Cappella, 2003: 506).”
Partisan Differences in Opinionated News Perceptions: A Test of the Hostile Media Effect (2011, background): “A further limitation of the forced exposure scenario is that it assumes that exposure to media necessarily drives perceptions of those media; however, other scholars have suggested the reverse—that is, that trust in media motivates exposure choices ( Tsfati and Cappella 2003 ).”
Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility (2010, background): “There is evidence to suggest that those who are relatively more trusting of mainstream news media are somewhat more likely to use these sources than those who are more skeptical of the media (Tsfati & Cappella, 2003).”
No Alternatives? The Relationship Between Perceived Media Dependency, Use of Alternative Information Sources, and General Trust in Mass Media (2010, positive): “When other motivations are present, trust in the media becomes less relevant” (Tsfati & Cappella, 2003, p. 519).”
How to Measure Generalized Trust in News Media? An Adaptation and Test of Scales (2019, background): “A number of empirical studies have shown that media skeptics use alternative media outlets more intensively than their trusting counterparts (Newman, Fletcher, Levy, & Nielsen, 2016; Tsfati, 2010; Tsfati & Cappella, 2003; Tsfati & Peri, 2006).”
Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “…future studies should consider that media skepticism—as a construct of users’ general mistrust of mainstream media (Cozzens & Contractor, 1987; Tsfati & Cappella, 2003)— does not directly translate to users’ trust of non-mainstream media, especially in their evaluation of fact-checked news.”
Seeking Out and Avoiding the News Media: Young Adults’ Proposed Strategies for Obtaining Current Events Information (2017, background): “A by-product of the modern media environment is that individuals seek out and use media sources that they don’t necessarily trust (Tsfati & Cappella, 2003).”
Individual and Contextual Correlates of Trust in Media Across 44 Countries (2014, background): “However, some have used trust in media as a predictor of exposure (Tsfati & Cappella, 2003) and others have used media exposure as a predictor of such trust (Jackob, 2010).”
Why Do People Watch News They Do Not Trust? The Need for Cognition as a Moderator in the Association Between News Media Skepticism and Exposure (2005, methodology): “In a previous study, we analyzed four large sample data sets and found that trust of mainstream news media is only moderately correlated with mainstream news consumption ( Tsfati & Cappella, 2003 ).”
Perceptions of Cable News Credibility (2013, background): “Further, Tsfati and Cappella (2003) showed that those who trust the news media overall are more likely to use mainstream sources such as network news and newspapers.”