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dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Ragnhild Kristine
dc.contributor.authorSolvoll, Mona K
dc.contributor.authorFutsæter, Knut Arne
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-04T10:03:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-04T10:03:33Z
dc.date.created2022-03-29T13:38:01Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationJournalism and Media. 2022, 3 (1), 182-197.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3010110
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates people’s attitudes towards news media’s role as gatekeepers during the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, this concerns news media’s quality control and the selection of the most important news about the pandemic, as well as the provision of useful information and knowledge about the virus and its implications. Challenging research that has questioned the very idea of journalistic gatekeeping in hybrid media systems, we set out to explore people’s attitudes towards news media’s gatekeeper functions during a crisis, when the need for reliable and relevant information is extraordinarily high and the information environment is flooded with disinformation. In this situation, news media gatekeepers could serve as safekeepers that protect the population. Based on a national survey in Norway (N = 1024), a country characterized by high levels of trust in social institutions, including the national press, the study finds that people were generally supportive of news media’s gatekeeper functions amid the pandemic. However, there were noteworthy demographic differences. Older people, women, and those who were more highly educated showed more positive attitudes towards news media’s gatekeeping. Moreover, we found lower support for news media’s gatekeeping in the group who trusted alternative, right-wing news media.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectaudiencesen_US
dc.subjectjournalismen_US
dc.subjectgatekeeperen_US
dc.subjectnews mediaen_US
dc.subjectinfodemicen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen_US
dc.subjectcoronavirusen_US
dc.subjectcrisisen_US
dc.subjectalternative mediaen_US
dc.titleGatekeepers as Safekeepers—Mapping Audiences’ Attitudes towards News Media’s Editorial Oversight Functions during the COVID-19 Crisisen_US
dc.title.alternativeGatekeepers as Safekeepers—Mapping Audiences’ Attitudes towards News Media’s Editorial Oversight Functions during the COVID-19 Crisisen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderThe Authorsen_US
dc.source.pagenumber182-197en_US
dc.source.volume3en_US
dc.source.journalJournalism and Mediaen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/journalmedia3010014
dc.identifier.cristin2013312
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 316534en_US
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