Public Trust or Mistrust? Perceptions of Media Credibility in the Information Age

By Spiro Kiousis. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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PEER EFFECTS IN ECONOMIC ATTITUDES (2014, neutral): “For instance, people may have differing levels of trust in media (Kiousis 2001), government (Miller 1974), police (Stoutland 2001), and their bosses (Mayer and Gavin 2005).”
The Reception of Fake News: The Interpretations and Practices That Shape the Consumption of Perceived Misinformation (2019, background): “Another stream of research has tried to account for the variables that might explain fake news exposure as well as attitudes around fake news and media credibility (Choi and Kim 2017; Jang and Kim 2018; Kiousis 2001; Livio and Cohen 2018; Tandoc Jr. 2019).”
Tornadoes, television and trust—A closer look at the influence of the local weathercaster during severe weather (2005, background): “Lee et al. (2003) were interested in a more general sense of interpersonal trust while Kiousis (2001) used trust as a means of explaining credibility.”
Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility (2010, background): “In our increasingly multimedia environment, researchers have also focused their attention on medium or channel differences in perceptions of news credibility (Bucy, 2003; Johnson &Kaye, 1998; Kiousis, 2001).”
A Losing Strategy: The Impact of Nondisclosure in Social Media on Relationships (2010, background): “From comparing the credibility of one medium to another (Kiousis, 2001) to examinations of the credibility of social media content (Banning & Sweetser, 2007; Johnson & Kaye, 2004), mass communication studies have tackled this concept.”
Correlations Among Variables in Message and Messenger Credibility Scales (2010, methodology): “For the sake of parsimony, many studies of messenger credibility during the past two decades have used Meyer’s five bipolar adjectives (for recent examples, see Choi & Lee, 2007; Greer, 2003; Huerta, 2003; Kiousis, 2001; Mersey, 2005; Oyedeji, 2007; Payne, Dozier, & Nomai, 2001).”
How Much Do They Think It Affects Them and Whom Do They Believe?: Comparing the Third-Person Effect and Credibility of Blogs and Traditional Media (2007, methodology): “For example, Kiousis (2001) reported Cronbach alpha values for each medium tested in that study ranging between .50 (Internet) and .62 (newspaper and television).”
No Alternatives? The Relationship Between Perceived Media Dependency, Use of Alternative Information Sources, and General Trust in Mass Media (2010, positive): “The reasons for this deficit can be found in various methodological problems associated with trust (Kiousis, 2001; Kohring & Matthes, 2007).”
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): “2Some prior research (e.g., Kiousis, 2001; Westley & Severin, 1964) found that, when asked to choose the most credible source from a list of media (television, newspaper, radio), respondents usually come up with an answer.”
Credibility in the blogosphere: A study of measurement and influence of wine blogs as an information source (2015, background): “be studied within the context of wine blog site, message, and source credibility (Kiousis, 2001).”
Effects of Online Health Sources on Credibility and Behavioral Intentions (2010, neutral): “…television, magazines, radio, and the Internet (e.g., Barning & Trammell, 2006; Johnson & Kaye, 2002, 2004; Newhagen & Nass, 1989; Stavrositu & Sundar, 2008; Walther, Wang, & Loh, 2004), including crossmedia comparisons of users’ credibility perceptions (e.g., Kiousis, 2001; Newhagen & Nass, 1989).”
How to Measure Generalized Trust in News Media? An Adaptation and Test of Scales (2019, background): “Kiousis (2001) found in research on credibility that even though credibility differs between news outlets, “[s]urvey participants seemed to perceive all of the media channels in the same direction, indicating that people probably have an overall perception of news credibility that only slightly…”
Measuring Social Media Credibility: A Study on a Measure of Blog Credibility (2011, background): “When individual users rely more on a specific medium for information, they consider it to be more credible than other media (Flanagin & Metzger, 2000; Johnson & Kaye, 1998; Kiousis, 2001).”
Exploring athlete brand image development on social media: the role of signalling through source credibility (2020, background): “Contrarily, mainstream media channels such as ESPN deliver unbiased information and are seen to be highly credible (Kiousis, 2001; Kwak et al., 2010).”
The Stereotypical Computer Scientist: Gendered Media Representations as a Barrier to Inclusion for Women (2013, background): “At the same time, people may be prone to believing some media messages more than others (Kiousis 2001).”
Individual and Contextual Correlates of Trust in Media Across 44 Countries (2014, neutral): “A relatively stable set of findings in previous research is that those who consume mainstream media tend to trust them (Jackob, 2010; Kiousis, 2001; Rimmer & Weaver, 1987; Tsfati & Cappella, 2003, 2005; but see Bennett et al., 1999 and Ladd, 2012 for insignificant findings).”
behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification (2007, background): “, 2000), cross-media comparisons (Flanagin and Metzger, 2000; Kiousis, 2001; Sundar, 1999), source attributions (Sundar and Nass, 2000, 2001), and the role of users’ reliance on web-based information (Johnson and Kaye, 2000, 2002).”
YouTube-ification of Political Talk: An Examination of Persuasion Appeals in Viral Video (2011, background): “Kiousis (2001) found that people tend to rate online news as more credible than television but less credible than print newspapers.”