This interdisciplinary volume explores the credibility of media and communications as a construct, ranging from the foundations of media history to the consequences of current debates for journalistic practice. Its contributions analyze structural factors and motives behind trust in media and media skepticism, in addition to discussing the strategic realignment of research efforts in communication studies.

Autorentext

A. Blome, Institute for Newspaper Research, Dortmund; T. Eberwein, Austrian Acad. of Sciences; S. Averbeck-Lietz, University of Bremen.