Abstract
With the increase in citizen-generated news, the need to understand how individual predispositions interact with news sources to influence perceptions of news credibility becomes increasingly important. Using a web-based experiment, this study examines the influences individual predispositions toward the media and politics have on perceived credibility of mainstream and citizen journalism. Analyzing data drawn from a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, results indicate that media skepticism and political cynicism interact, such that cynics and skeptics perceive citizen journalism as more credible, while non-cynics and non-skeptics think mainstream journalism is more credible.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 452-470 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2014 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Communication
User-Defined Keywords
- Citizen journalism
- Media credibility
- Media skepticism
- Political cynicism