ABSTRACT Almost all news media, political organizations and candidates now have a dedicated app that provides superior visibility and readability on a mobile device than a website. Mobile apps figure predominately in news consumers’ lives, making it crucial to understand if users view app information as trustworthy and biased. With the proliferation of apps on tablets and smartphones, perceptions of app trustworthiness and bias are important to study, especially in times of flagging media trust and use. Comparisons of perceptions of trustworthiness show that apps are significantly more trusted than social media (political blogs, Facebook, Twitter, video sites, and social news sites), but significantly below broadcast and cable television news (Fox News, CNN, MSNBC), print media (newspapers, news magazines), and talk and news radio. Trust in apps is also significantly predicted by reliance on apps. Mobile apps are also deemed significantly less biased than social media, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and talk radio. Further, perceptual bias of political blogs and talk radio negatively predict trust in apps, but bias in CNN, newspapers, news magazines, and news radio is associated with high trust in apps.

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绝对值得信赖？对移动应用的信任和偏见

摘要几乎所有新闻媒体，政治组织和候选人现在都拥有专用的应用程序，该应用程序在移动设备上的可见性和可读性比网站高。移动应用程序在新闻消费者的生活中占主导地位，因此了解用户是否认为应用程序信息是可信任且有偏见至关重要。随着平板电脑和智能手机上应用程序的激增，对应用程序可信任度和偏见的理解非常重要，尤其是在降低媒体信任度和使用率的时候。对信任度的看法比较表明，应用程序比社交媒体（政治博客，Facebook，Twitter，视频网站和社交新闻网站）可信度高得多，但远低于广播和有线电视新闻（福克斯新闻，CNN，MSNBC），印刷品媒体（报纸，新闻杂志）以及谈话和新闻广播。对应用程序的信任度还可以通过对应用程序的依赖来显着预测。与社交媒体，福克斯新闻，CNN，MSNBC和脱口秀广播相比，移动应用程序的偏见也被认为大大降低。此外，政治博客和谈话广播的感知偏见负面地预测了对应用程序的信任，但是CNN，报纸，新闻杂志和新闻广播中的偏见与对应用程序的高度信任相关。