报告题目：Trust and Engagement with Online News: Fact vs Opinion based Reporting（对网络新闻的信任与参与：事实与基于观点的报道对比）

报告人：Prof. Uwe DULLECk，Executive Dean, Faculty of Business, Government & Law, UC（乌韦·杜勒克教授, 澳大利亚堪培拉大学商业、政府和法律学院教授、执行院长）

与谈嘉宾：Simon HOY, Associate Dean (Partnerships and International), Faculty of Business, Government & Law（西蒙·霍伊副教授，堪培拉大学工商、政府与法律学院，副院长）

报告时间：2024年11月4日（星期一）上午9:30-10:45

报告地点：必发9988集团大楼405

邀请部门：经济学系

 

报告人简介：

Uwe Dulleck is a professor of economics and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra, Australia. Professor Dulleck’s research focuses on the economics of incentives using traditional economics as well as experimental and behavioural approaches. His publications can be found in the ‘American Economic Review’, ‘Journal of Economic Literature’, the ‘International Journal of Industrial Organization’, the ‘Economic Journal’, and the ‘Journal of Public Economics’, among others. His research has been discussed in the Economic Focus of ‘The Economist’, the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’ （the Sunday edition of Germany’s leading quality newspaper）, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Forbes Magazine, the Age, among others as well as radio and TV programs. Uwe was awarded four ARC Grants and is a co-investigator on two Austrian Research grants. He held visiting professorships at Universities in Linz, Berlin and Vienna and gave mini courses for research students in the United States, Europe and China.

 

报告摘要：

Trust in and Engagement with news play a crucial role for society. In this paper, we investigate whether and how differently readers understand and respond after reading fact-based vs opinion-based media pieces, hoping to shed some light on why we see the increase of subjectivity in journalism. Our analysis is based upon data drawn from an add-on survey to a subsample of the Digital News Report (DNR) 2023 sample in three countries – Australia, Singapore and UK. We make use of viewers being randomly allocated to different types of news pieces (and types of platforms) in an embedded experiment. We find that viewers understand opinion pieces less but engage more with the opinion that fact-based pieces, which may explain the trend of increasing subjectivity in reporting and the concerns of misinformation associating with this trend.