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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.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.15655/mw/2017/v8i1/49017
    Publisher:
    Media Watch
    Pub. Date:
    2017-5-10
    Journal:
    Media Watch
    Volume:
    8
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    126 - 142
    ISSN:
    2249-8818,0976-0911
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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