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Do People Watch what they Do Not Trust? Exploring the Association between News Media Skepticism and Exposure

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Hypotheses predicting a relationship between media skepticism and news media consumption are tested and findings show that media skepticism is negatively associated with mainstream news exposure but positively associated with nonmainstream news exposure.
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This article explores a possible association between skepticism toward the media and audience exposure patterns. Hypotheses predicting a relationship between media skepticism and news media consumption are tested on four large sample data sets. Findings show that media skepticism is negatively associated with mainstream news exposure but positively associated with nonmainstream news exposure.

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Trust in News Media Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Scale

TL;DR: This model is the first validated scale of trust in news media in communication research and confirms the hypothesis that trust inNews media can be considered a hierarchical factor that consists of four lower order factors, includingTrust in the selectivity of topics, trust in theSelectivity of facts, Trust in the accuracy of depictions, and trust in journalistic assessment.
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Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of media as an instrument of regime stability and change in China and other authoritarian states and found that media credibility and media branding can influence public opinion.
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The Impact of Trust in the News Media on Online News Consumption and Participation

TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of individual trust in the news media on source preferences and online news participation behavior, in particular sharing and commenting, across 11 countries, and found that those with low levels of trust tend to prefer non-mainstream news sources like social media, blogs, and digital-born providers.
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Power and Discontent

P. J. Kemeny
- 01 Sep 1969 - 
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Foundations of Social Theory

TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior is proposed. But the approach is not suitable for large-scale systems.
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A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust.

TL;DR: This definition clearly departs significandy from Enkson's (1953) broad use of the concept of basic trust, and an expectancy that others can be believed must be an important variable m human learmng in general.
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Trust in close relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model describing interpersonal trust in close relationships is presented, and three dimensions of trust are identified, based on the type of attributions drawn about a partner's motives.
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