This book establishes a measurement index to quantify China’s mass media public credibility, based on extensive research and the encapsulation of measurement theories and approaches related to media public credibility, as well as numerous ...

The essays in this volume reveal that political communication is a hybrid field with complex ancestry, permeable boundaries, and interests that overlap with those of related fields such as political sociology, public opinion, rhetoric, ...

This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news.

... media. Credibility Origins, Definitions, and Current Issues Origins of Credibility Research Scholarly interest in credibility dates back to Aristotle's writings on rhetoric and his notions of ethos (appeal based on the character of a ...

This volume addresses the issue of credibility--the objective and subjective components that make information believable--in the contemporary media environment.