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Incivility, Source and Credibility: An Experimental Test of News Story Processing in the Digital Age
- Author(s):
- Y WU E. THORSON
- Editor(s):
- Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Electronic Literature, Information Ecosystems
- Subject(s):
- Digital communications, Digital media, Journalism, Reportage literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Incivility, source, credibility, digital journalism, Digital communication, New media, Literary journalism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8916-wb31
- Abstract:
- The “civility crisis” has been a big concern in the U.S. and abroad at least since the 1990s. Evidence suggested that uncivil attacks in political discourse have a negative impact on political trust. Administering an online survey with an experiment embedded in it, the study seeks to find out whether source and uncivil commentary in a news story have an effect on the level of credibility of a news story. A 3 (Source: newspaper, blog, student’s class writing) x 2 (Incivility: civil and uncivil) mixed subjects design online survey was administered via Qualtrics on a sample of students (N = 438) in a large Midwestern State University. The data suggested incivility was a significant predictor of news credibility, including message credibility and news organization credibility. A negative association was found between perceived incivility and news credibility.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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