EFFECT OF SOURCE ATTRIBUTION ON PERCEPTION OF ONLINE NEWS STORIES

Authors
SUNDAR SS
Citation
Ss. Sundar, EFFECT OF SOURCE ATTRIBUTION ON PERCEPTION OF ONLINE NEWS STORIES, Journalism and mass communication quarterly, 75(1), 1998, pp. 55-68
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Communication
Journal title
Journalism and mass communication quarterly → ACNP
ISSN journal
10776990
Volume
75
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
55 - 68
Database
ISI
SICI code
1077-6990(1998)75:1<55:EOSAOP>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Are quoted sources in online news as psychologically meaningful as tho se in printed and broadcast news ? A within-subjects experiment was de signed to answer this question. On a web site,forty-eight subjects rea d three online news stories with quotes and three stories without sour ce attribution. They rated stories with quotes significantly higher in credibility and quality than identical stories without quotes. Howeve r, quotes did not seem to affect their ratings of liking for - and rep resentativeness (newsworthiness) of - online news.