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Trust in a Digital World: The Roles of Media Trust and Ordinary Citizen Cues in Online Disinformation’s Credibility
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 72, issue 3 (2024), pp. 297-312
"The perception of disinformation as societal risk has reached a troubling peak amid the COVID-19 pandemic, strategically targeting vulnerable audiences through digital media by mirroring characteristics of vox populi disinformation. This study investigates the conditions under which COVID-19-relate
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The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies
Digital Journalism (2023), 18 pp.
"Trust lies at the heart of the disinformation crisis, as citizens must decide which narratives to follow and whether to accept “alternative truths.” Therefore, trust in institutions that publish reliable information can act as a shield against disinformation. This comparative study investigates
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Degrees of deception: The effects of different types of COVID-19 misinformation and the effectiveness of corrective information in crisis times
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1699-1715
"Responding to widespread concerns about misinformation’s impact on democracy, we conducted an experiment in which we exposed German participants to different degrees of misinformation on COVID-19 connected to politicized (immigration) and apolitical (runners) issues (N = 1,490). Our key findings
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Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries
Journal of Communication, volume 72, issue 2 (2022), pp. 145-164
"Media systems have changed significantly as a result of the development of information technologies. However, typologies of media systems that incorporate aspects of digitalization are rare. This study fills this gap by identifying, operationalizing, and measuring indicators of media systems in the
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