威权主义下的信息控制悖论:对中国竞争信息信任的解释

IF 2.5 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI:10.1177/00323217231191399

Chengli Wang, Jiangnan Zhu, Dong Zhang

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摘要

为了引导公众舆论，专制国家优先考虑国家媒体对政治新闻的报道，同时将商业和外国媒体边缘化。这种主导地位能保证人们对国家媒体新闻的信任吗?我们认为，谣言通过非正式渠道传播，不受国家信息控制，对公众对国家媒体新闻的信任构成了巨大挑战。我们在中国的两个调查实验将来自国家媒体来源的不同信息质量的新闻(例如，翔实/详细的报道vs粗略提及事件)与谣言进行了比较，表明只有在信息质量高的情况下，国家媒体新闻才能保持高水平的可信度;然而，由于信息控制导致的国有媒体新闻质量低下，降低了其可信度，促使人们相信谣言。低质量谣言对新闻可信度和公民对政府政策满意度的负面影响大于高质量谣言。因此，信息控制会矛盾地削弱人们对国家媒体的信任，而在专制国家，国家媒体往往代表政府。

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The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China

To steer public opinion, autocracies prioritize state media reports of political news while marginalizing commercial and foreign media. Can this dominance guarantee people’s trust in state media news? We contend that rumors, circulated via informal channels and resistant to state information control, present a formidable challenge to public trust in state media news. Our two survey experiments in China pitted news of varying information quality (e.g. informative/detailed reports vs cursory mentions of events) from state media sources against rumors, showing that state media news can retain high levels of trustworthiness only if its information quality is high; however, low-quality state media news resulting from information control diminishes its trustworthiness and prompts people to believe rumors. Low-quality rumors have more negative effects than high-quality rumors on news trustworthiness and citizens’ satisfaction with government policies. Thus, information control can paradoxically erode trust in state media, which often represent the government in autocracies.

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Political Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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8.00

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3.20%

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期刊介绍： Political Studies is a leading international journal committed to the very highest standards of peer review that publishes academically rigorous and original work in all fields of politics and international relations. The editors encourage a pluralistic approach to political science and debate across the discipline. Political Studies aims to develop the most promising new work available and to facilitate professional communication in political science.