Original scientific paper
Connections Betwen Trust in Journalism and Patterns of Media Use
Sašo Slaček Brlek
orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-3092
; Social Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jožica Zajc
orcid.org/0000-0001-7500-9825
; Centre for Organisational and Human Resources Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Boris Mance
; Social Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The article investigates the connections between trust in journalism and media use. The authors fi nd that the connection between frequency of media use for informative purposes and trust in journalism is very weak, being statistically signifi cant at the 0.05 level for television viewing but not for radio listening, newspaper reading or use of the internet. The authors fi nd indications of polarisation along partisan lines, since those respondents who follow right-wing media (especially those associated with the Slovenian Democratic Party) exhibit a lower level of trust in journalism.
Keywords
trust in journalism; media fragmentation; partisan polarisation; news consumption
Hrčak ID:
161252
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2016.
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