Individual and Contextual Correlates of Trust in Media Across 44 Countries

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 760-782

  Tsfati, Yariv ^a   Ariely, Gal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

media ownership; Multilevel analysis; postmaterialism; trust in media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908571192     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650213485972     Document Type: Article

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