Trust, Media, and Democracy

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy. His main fields of interest are media and public sphere transformations, digital transformations of society, political communication and democracy, as well as a cultural and political sociology of European integration with a focus on the emergence of a European media and the public sphere, European civil society, European civilisation and identity, migration and ethnic minorities. His most recent publications include “Democracy and the Public Sphere: From Dystopia back to Utopia”, “Narrating European Society”, and “Toward a Sociology of European Integration”.

• Chapter 1: Contemporary challenges to trust, media and democracy.- Chapter 2: Communicating trust: from rational choice to cultural explanations of trust relationships.- Chapter 3: Social trust, political trust and media trust.- Chapter 4: Trust in news and trust through news: the role of journalism as a trust mediator and trust builder.- Chapter 5: Trust in the age of digital and social media.- Chapter 6: From the decline of trust to its constant renewal.

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