Through two separate surveys targeting visual professionals (VP) and citizen visual contributors (CVC), we assess their views on citizen journalists’ roles along with their views on the likelihood to act on those views (i.e., role performance intention) in order to identify associations between perception and performance. The role that perceived media credibility plays in the assessment of role conceptions and potential role performance was also examined. Findings indicate that CVC rate their roles as significantly more important than the ratings of VP on citizens’ roles. Correlation analysis points to associations between the roles but misalignment in the relationship between conceptions and performance among CVC but alignment among VP. When looking at the impact of media credibility on role conceptions and performance, it is clear that perceived media credibility plays a significant role among the views of professionals. However, media credibility is not much of a factor in the assessments by CVC. Implications are discussed.

通过针对视觉专业人员（VP）和公民视觉贡献者（CVC）的两项独立调查，我们评估了他们对公民记者角色的看法以及他们对采取这些看法的可能性的看法（即，角色表现意图），以便确定感知与绩效之间的关联。还考察了媒体公信力在评估角色概念和潜在角色表现中的作用。调查结果表明，CVC对公民角色的评价比对VP公民角色的评价重要得多。相关性分析指出了角色之间的关联，但CVC之间的概念与绩效之间的关系错位，但VP之间的一致性。在考察媒体信誉对角色概念和绩效的影响时，显然，在专业人士的观点中，公认的媒体信誉起着重要的作用。但是，媒体公信力并不是CVC评估的重要因素。讨论了含义。