Trust and distrust do not have a statistically significant effect on news consumption, write Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, of University of Vienna, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, of Universidad Diego Portales. The authors surveyed over 2 800 Americans in two waves of online questionnaires, asking them about their trust toward traditional and non-traditional media, and later on … Continued

Whether or not an online story has multimedia included, it does not strongly affect emotional reactions or immersion into the story. A new article by Hanna Pincus and Magdalena Wojcieszak of the University of Amsterdam and Hajo Boomgarden of the University of Vienna dives into effects of multimedia. The authors did an experiment showing participants … Continued

Citizens have strong expectations that news media publish correct information and they have little tolerance for errors, states a new study by Michael Karlsson and Christer Clerwall of Karlstad University and Lars Nord of Mid Sweden University. Their recent article studies users’ attitudes towards inaccuracies in news and corrections in online journalism. The authors used … Continued

New article by Jonathan Bright explores the question why some news articles are shared more than others on social media. Results of the study show that editorial promotion of the article on the front page and the topic of the article are both significant. There is also different sharing patterns for different types of article: News about … Continued