University of Vienna, Austria.
The University of Alabama, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2019 Oct;28(7):759-777. doi: 10.1177/0963662519869097.
The growing importance of social media for getting science news has raised questions about whether these online platforms foster or hinder public trust in science. Employing multilevel modeling, this study leverages a 20-country survey to examine the relationship between social media news use and trust in science. Results show a positive relationship between these variables across countries. Moreover, the between-country variation in this relationship is related to two cultural characteristics of a country, individualism/collectivism and power distance.
社交媒体在获取科学新闻方面的重要性日益增加，这引发了一个问题，即这些在线平台是促进还是阻碍了公众对科学的信任。本研究采用多层次建模，利用一项涵盖 20 个国家的调查，考察了社交媒体新闻使用与对科学的信任之间的关系。结果表明，在这些国家中，这两个变量之间存在正相关关系。此外，这种关系的国家间差异与一个国家的两个文化特征有关，即个人主义/集体主义和权力距离。
