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    How news audiences allocate trust in the digital age: A figuration perspective
    (2024) Mangold, Frank; Bachl, Marko; Prochazka, Fabian; Mangold, Frank; GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln, Germany; Bachl, Marko; University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; Prochazka, Fabian; University of Erfurt, Germany
    The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations ) across journalistic media, social media, and peers to reflect the multiplicity among modern news audiences. A latent class analysis of a representative survey among German young adults revealed four figurations: traditionalists, indifferentials, optimists, and cynics. Political characteristics and education corresponded with substantial heterogeneity in individuals’ trust in news sources, their inclination to differentiate between sources, and the ways of integrating trust in journalistic and non-journalistic sources.
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    The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
    (2021) Mangold, Frank; Stier, Sebastian; Breuer, Johannes; Scharkow, Michael
    Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 (N = 2970) and 2018 (N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by preferences. The infrastructural role of social media corresponded with reduced news avoidance and more varied news repertoires. Overall, the results suggest that research needs to reconsider commonly held premises regarding the uses of digital media in modern high-choice settings.