The rise of mistrust: Digital platforms and trust in news media

该项目旨在调查随着受众越来越多地通过数字平台获取新闻，对新闻的信任和不信任如何改变他们的行为。为了观察全球信任危机，该项目将对新闻中的信任和不信任进行纵向分析，进行一项将信任和受众反应联系起来的四国实验，并进行一项深入的定性研究，提供这些选择的具体背景。这项研究将直接惠及政策制定者，因为它解决了如何在数字平台日益占主导地位的时代更好地确保值得信赖的新闻内容的问题，这些平台通过算法对澳大利亚公众可获得的新闻范围进行分类。

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.