@jayrosen_nyu @perryrparks @CJR @SethCLewis Interesting: "In other words, we find that when people discuss their trust in news, they focus less on their evaluations of the relative quality of individual news sources than they do on their perceptions of the
A recent paper from @jnelz & @SethCLewis, published in New Media & Society, explores this skepticism. They find that distrust in news doesn't lead Americans to avoid the news -- but leads them to "do their own research" to fact check what they cons
Papers like this make me think that the "filter bubble" theory had it backward. People don't go down the rabbit hole just because they see something online. It's what they find when "fact checking" (Google, friends, 3rd party sites) that matters most. http
RT @schradie: Yes. Because we have to stop thinking tech is the cause and solution to disinfo. A societal context matters.