New COST WG1 publication available online: CM Journal Issue "Trust in the media across Europe"

COST TATS WG1 special issue ready, and available for free online

Special CM Journal Issue ‘Trust in the media across Europe’, edited by Lars Nyre & Liina Puustinen

The special journal issue ‘Trust in the media across Europe’, edited by Lars Nyre & Liina Puustinen has just been published in the academic journal CM (Communication Management Quarterly). This peer-reviewed special issue aims to contribute to the understanding of the invisible bond that makes humans trust each other to act in the interest of the other, and it looks for patterns and rules for how humans relate to each other through institutions. Focused on empirical research, the special issue offers both the analyses of the hermeneutic, qualitative, personal dimensions of trust, and explorations of generalized trust in institutions. The articles come from five different European countries, all dealing with contemporary times, from circa 2000 to the present.

The abstracts are provided in attachment to this email.

The entire special issue can be downloaded from the COST TATS website at the download page:
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/1181

Alternatively, the special issue can also be downloaded from the CM webpage, at:
http://www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/2011/10/24/cm-casopis-za-upravljanje-komuniciran...

Here, the direct link is: http://www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/CM26-SE-Web.pdf

The work captured in the articles of this special issue originates from the Working Group on “New Media Genres, Media Literacy, and Trust in the Media” of the COST Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (TATS), which is financed from 2010-2014. The main objective of the TATS COST Action is to advance state-of-the-art knowledge of the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies. This COST Action comprises more than 280 scholars from 33 countries.
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Table of contents
Trust in the media across Europe
CM Communication Management Quarterly, 26, 2013
ISSN 1452-7405

Trust in the media across Europe
Lars Nyre and Liina Puustinen

The image of trust. Readers’ views on the trustworthiness of news photographs
Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen

Trust in the author: Identity, expertise and reputation
Tereza Pavlíčková

Social networking sites – (un)trustworthy news sources?
Jelena Jurišić and Ivana Šipić

Trust in the diverging, convergent multi-platform media environment
Guy Starkey

Trust in the context of audience fragmentation
Ragne Kõuts, Peeter Vihalemm and Marju Lauristin

Comparing the incomparable: Trust in media and state institutions
Gintaras Aleknonis

Institutional trust in the Croatian post-socialist context
Antonija Čuvalo