Discovery Projects award

  • Oh, Se-uk S.-U. (PI)
  • Edson C Tandoc Jr. (CoPI)
  • Fletcher, Richard (CoPI)
  • Park, Sora (CoPI)
  • Fisher, Caroline (CoPI)
  • Dulleck, Uwe (CoPI)

Project: Research project

Project Details

Description

The rise of mistrust: Digital platforms and trust in news media. This project aims to investigate how trust and mistrust in news changes audiences’ behaviours as they increasingly access news through digital platforms. Observing the global crisis of trust, the project will undertake a longitudinal analysis of trust and mistrust in news, a four-country experiment that links trust and audience responses, and an in-depth qualitative study that provides specific contexts of these choices. The research will directly benefit policy makers, as it addresses questions of how to better secure trustworthy news content in an age of increasing dominance of digital platforms that algorithmically sort the range of news available to the Australian public.

StatusFinished
Effective start/end date12/1/21 → 11/30/24

Funding

  • Australian Research Council

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Education

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