How Media Contacts During COVID-19 Influence Political Trust: An Empirical Study of Chinese University Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.082How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Political trust; Media contacts; Infodemic; Media malaise; China
- Abstract
Focusing on the information dissemination process of COVID-19, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between the frequency of different media use, source trust, and political trust, starting from the media exposure and use of university students. A questionnaire survey was used to collect 371 Chinese university students, with content preference, proximity to the epidemic, cognitive demands, and recognition of media control behaviors as independent variables, and political trust as dependent variables, to explore the link between media exposure and political trust. The results of the study show that for university students the higher the cognitive demands and recognition of media control behaviors, the higher the political trust, and the more frequently traditional media, social media, news clients, and short video platforms are used, the higher the political trust, while the more frequently foreign information channels are used, the lower the political trust. Positive reports and risk information are the main types of information that enhance the political trust of university students. Traditional media such as radio, television, newspapers, and We Media with pertinent official views are the main sources of enhancing political trust, while We Media and marketed media show a significant negative correlation with political trust.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - ZiHan Zhang PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - How Media Contacts During COVID-19 Influence Political Trust: An Empirical Study of Chinese University Students BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 473 EP - 483 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.082 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.082 ID - Zhang2021 ER -