Fostering public trust in science: The role of social media
- Autor(en)
- Brigitte Huber, Matthew Barnidge, Homero Gil de Zuniga, James Liu
- Abstrakt
The growing importance of social media for getting science news has raised questions about whether these online platforms foster or hinder public trust in science. Employing multilevel modeling, this study leverages a 20-country survey to examine the relationship between social media news use and trust in science. Results show a positive relationship between these variables across countries. Moreover, the between-country variation in this relationship is related to two cultural characteristics of a country, individualism/collectivism and power distance.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of Alabama, Universidad Diego Portales, Massey University
- Journal
- Public Understanding of Science
- Band
- 28
- Seiten
- 759-777
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 19
- ISSN
- 0963-6625
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662519869097
- Publikationsdatum
- 10-2019
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Communication, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3fefb94e-c10e-4288-bba3-a58b3a83409f