Abstract The roles of contextual determinants such as culture and political regime in existing studies of Internet use and institutional trust remain underexplored. Adopting a cultural-institutional perspective, we ask: How does Internet use relate to institutional trust? Under what conditions is the impact of Internet use on institutional trust most potent? Do authoritarian orientation and perceived institutional responsiveness mediate the relationship? Is this mediating process moderated by the degree of democratic freedom? A total of 20,667 respondents from 14 East Asian countries/territories completed questionnaires. Our results show that the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via authoritarian orientation was stronger for countries/territories with a low degree of democratic freedom, while the indirect effect of Internet use on institutional trust via perceived institutional responsiveness was stronger for countries/territories with a higher degree of democratic freedom.

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大型机和普通话：互联网使用对东亚机构信任的影响

摘要 在现有的互联网使用和制度信任研究中，文化和政治体制等情境决定因素的作用仍未得到充分探索。从文化制度的角度来看，我们问：互联网使用与制度信任有何关系？在什么条件下互联网使用对机构信任的影响最有效？威权取向和感知到的制度响应是否会调节这种关系？这种调解过程是否受到民主自由程度的影响？共有来自 14 个东亚国家/地区的 20,667 名受访者完成了问卷调查。我们的结果表明，对于民主自由度较低的国家/地区，互联网使用通过威权导向对制度信任的间接影响更强，