Affiliation:
1. Texas State University San Marcos
2. Xcel Energy
Abstract
Abstract
This study contrasts the effects of news media to those of neighborhood in building consensus regarding trust in
government. Consensus building is a consequence of agenda setting at a societal level. It conducts a secondary data analysis from
an online survey with a panel of 983 older Texans from November/December 2015. We found significant correlation between trust and
following the news, accessing TV news, using digital media, online news and newspapers. We found that news media in general and
online news increased consensus both within education and location; radio and television increased consensus for education and
digital media for income. Our spatial auto-correlation test found a minimal tendency of similar values of trust to be clustered.
We cannot infer that neighborhood contributes in the formation of trust. We found evidence, in a case study of older Texans, that
the news media may bring us closer together than next-door neighbors
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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