TY - JOUR
T1 - Fostering public trust in science
T2 - The role of social media
AU - Huber, Brigitte
AU - Barnidge, Matthew
AU - Gil de Zúñiga, Homero
AU - Liu, James
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by Grant FA2386-15-1-0003 from the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development. Responsibility for the information and views set out in this study lies entirely with the authors.
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PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The growing importance of social media for getting science news has raised questions about whether these online platforms foster or hinder public trust in science. Employing multilevel modeling, this study leverages a 20-country survey to examine the relationship between social media news use and trust in science. Results show a positive relationship between these variables across countries. Moreover, the between-country variation in this relationship is related to two cultural characteristics of a country, individualism/collectivism and power distance.
AB - The growing importance of social media for getting science news has raised questions about whether these online platforms foster or hinder public trust in science. Employing multilevel modeling, this study leverages a 20-country survey to examine the relationship between social media news use and trust in science. Results show a positive relationship between these variables across countries. Moreover, the between-country variation in this relationship is related to two cultural characteristics of a country, individualism/collectivism and power distance.
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U2 - 10.1177/0963662519869097
DO - 10.1177/0963662519869097
M3 - Article
C2 - 31524092
AN - SCOPUS:85072158275
SN - 0963-6625
VL - 28
SP - 759
EP - 777
JO - Public Understanding of Science
JF - Public Understanding of Science
IS - 7
ER -