Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media

Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Age of Suspicion....Pages 3-8 Exploring Relationships between Trust Studies and Media Studies....Pages 9-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Origins of the Problem of Trust: Propaganda during the First World War....Pages 27-38 The Erosion of Trust in Australian Public Life....Pages 39-50 Manufacturing Authenticity in a Small Nation: The Case of Independent Local Radio in Wales....Pages 51-63 Terrorism and the Microdynamics of Trust....Pages 64-74 Risk, Advice and Trust: How Service Journalism Fails Its Audience....Pages 75-87 ‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’: MMR and the Politics of Suspicion....Pages 88-101 New Media Enterprise in the Age of Suspicion....Pages 102-113 Trust, Data-Mining and Instantaneity: The Creation of the Online Accountable Consumer....Pages 114-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Risk Communication, Television News and Trust Generation: The Utility of Ethos....Pages 127-140 The Media’s Role in a Transition Society: From Public Lies to Public Trust?....Pages 141-154 Trust in a Time of Crisis: The Mass Media as a Guardian of Trust....Pages 155-166 ‘It Was a Mascara Runnin’ Kinda Day’: Oprah Winfrey, Confession, Celebrity and the Formation of Trust....Pages 167-176 Branding Trust: The Ideology of Making Truth Claims through Interactive Media....Pages 177-188 The Technology of Distrust....Pages 189-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 The End of Trust?....Pages 205-213 Back Matter....Pages 214-244