Project description
Understanding public discourse in the digital age
Understanding how citizens respond to challenging information is vital for fostering productive political engagement in democracies. However, existing research on this topic has predominantly concentrated on the US, where public trust in the media is low. The MSCA-funded INFOTRUST project aims to address this gap by conducting cross-national experiments across Europe, Asia and North America. The goal is to investigate how varying levels of media trust influence people’s selection and processing of attitude-discrepant information, thereby establishing a more robust theoretical framework for comprehending public discourse in the digital age. The project will explore trust dynamics at both individual and contextual levels, employing web tracking and eye tracking techniques for precise observations. This approach will generate a comprehensive data set.
Objective
To foster productive political engagement in contemporary democracies, it is vital to understand how citizens respond to information that challenges their beliefs. Yet relevant research focuses overwhelmingly on the U.S. where public trust in media is uniquely low. INFOTRUST hypothesizes that a major comparative study of low, medium, and high media-trust nations from N. America, Europe, and Asia will upend settled assumptions and promote a more robust theoretical framework for understanding public discourse in the Internet age. Working at the juncture of political science, communication studies and psychology, it will conduct a series of experiments, engineered for cross-national comparability, in 7-8 representative nations, testing whether and how levels of media trust affect the way people select and process attitude-discrepant information. In a first, moreover, the project will operationalize trust at both individual and contextual levels and explore the interactions between them. Its pathbreaking methodology, which adopts web-tracking and eye-tracking techniques, will yield more precise observations than the literature offers, providing a wealth of data for its own conclusions, and for succeeding researchers to plumb. INFOTRUST will facilitate knowledge transfers among E.U. and non-E.U. researchers concerning politics, media, culture, and methodologies. The project will allow an early-career female researcher to gain crucial experience in administering ambitious, cross-national projects, implementing cutting-edge technologies, and working in the E.U. contexts. Moreover, INFOTRUST will employ an international dissemination plan to engage activists, policy makers, journalists, and citizens in its findings, yielding concrete and practical strategies to promote deliberative engagement. The insights it yields will lead to evidence-based solutions for combating political polarization, echo chambers, and the worrisome erosion of democracy we are witnessing at present.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
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1010 WIEN
Austria
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