How do News Consumers in Western Australia Perceive the Credibility of News?

Gichomo, Miriam Ngechi

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Open access

Authors

Gichomo, Miriam Ngechi

Date

2020

Supervisor

Tama Leaver

Kathryn Shine

Type

Thesis

Award

MPhil

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Faculty

Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81988

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

This study analysed how participants aged 18 years and above from Western Australian (WA) perceive the credibility of the news they consume, comprehensively examining how news consumers feel about news especially if they distrust it. The study investigated the views news consumers have, noting the impact of digitisation in giving news consumers a larger voice in airing out their discrepancies, and how these issues affect the kind of news readers accept or disregard.