TY - JOUR
T1 - Mainframes and mandarins
T2 - The impact of internet use on institutional trust in East Asia
AU - Huang, Yi-Hui Christine
AU - Lu, Yuanhang
AU - Kao, Lang
AU - Choy, Christine Hiu Ying
AU - Chang, Yu-tzung
N1 - The authors would also like to express their sincere gratitude towards the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) for granting access and use of its data.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - The roles of contextual determinants such as culture and political regime in existing studies of Internet use and institutional trust remain underexplored. Adopting a cultural-institutional perspective, we ask: How does Internet use relate to institutional trust? Under what conditions is the impact of Internet use on institutional trust most potent? Do authoritarian orientation and perceived institutional responsiveness mediate the relationship? Is this mediating process moderated by the degree of democratic freedom? A total of 20,667 respondents from 14 East Asian countries/territories completed questionnaires. Our results show that the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via authoritarian orientation was stronger for countries/territories with a low degree of democratic freedom, while the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via perceived institutional responsiveness was stronger for countries/territories with a higher degree of democratic freedom.
AB - The roles of contextual determinants such as culture and political regime in existing studies of Internet use and institutional trust remain underexplored. Adopting a cultural-institutional perspective, we ask: How does Internet use relate to institutional trust? Under what conditions is the impact of Internet use on institutional trust most potent? Do authoritarian orientation and perceived institutional responsiveness mediate the relationship? Is this mediating process moderated by the degree of democratic freedom? A total of 20,667 respondents from 14 East Asian countries/territories completed questionnaires. Our results show that the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via authoritarian orientation was stronger for countries/territories with a low degree of democratic freedom, while the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via perceived institutional responsiveness was stronger for countries/territories with a higher degree of democratic freedom.
KW - Internet use
KW - Institutional trust
KW - Authoritarian orientation
KW - Institutional responsiveness
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079040818&origin=inward
U2 - 10.1016/j.telpol.2020.101912
DO - 10.1016/j.telpol.2020.101912
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0308-5961
VL - 44
JO - Telecommunications Policy
JF - Telecommunications Policy
IS - 2
M1 - 101912
ER -