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Additional research on branding and trust

The following studies were reviewed for CJR’s experiment on magazine branding and trust online. Those marked with * are directly referenced in the text.  *Austin E, Dong Q (1994) Source v. content effects on judgments of news believability. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 71:4 973-983. *Blackwell CJ (2011) Protecting the magazine brand: brand manuals, their […]

The following studies were reviewed for CJR’s experiment on magazine branding and trust online. Those marked with * are directly referenced in the text. 

*Austin E, Dong Q (1994) Source v. content effects on judgments of news believability. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 71:4 973-983.

*Blackwell CJ (2011) Protecting the magazine brand: brand manuals, their uses, and implementation. The University of Mississippi.

Buttle F (1998) Word of mouth: understanding and managing referral marketing. Journal of Strategic Marketing 6:4.

Carr DJ, Barnidge M, Lee BG, Tsang SJ (2014) Cynics and skeptics: Evaluating the credibility of mainstream and citizen journalism. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 91:3 452-470.

Ceron A (2015) Internet, news, and political trust: The difference between social media and online media outlets. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 20: 487–503.

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Chaudhuri A, Holbrook M (2001) The chain of effects from brand trust and brand affect to brand performance: the role of brand loyalty. Journal of Marketing 65:2 81-93.

Chen J, Dibb S (2010) Consumer trust in the online retail context: exploring the antecedents and consequences. Psychology and Marketing 27:4 323-346.

*Cole J, Greer J (2013) Audience response to brand journalism: the effect of frame, source, and involvement. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 90:4 673-690.

Davidson L, McNeill L, Ferguson S (2007) Magazine communities: Brand community formation in magazine consumption. The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy  27:5 208-220.

Ellonen H, Kuivalainen O (2007) Magazine publishers and their online strategies: Review and implications for research and online-strategy formulation. International Journal of Technology Marketing 2:1 81-100.

Ellonen H (2007) Exploring the strategic impact of technological change: Studies on the role of Internet in magazine publishing. Lappeenranta 203:14.

Eveland W, Shah D (2003) The impact of individual and interpersonal factors on perceived news media bias. Political Psychology 24:1 101-117.

Faro D (2010) Changing the future by reshaping the past: the influence of causal beliefs on estimates of time to onset. Journal of Consumer Research 37:2 279-291.

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Fiske ST (1993) “Social cognition and social perception.” Annual Review of Psychology 44: 155-194.

Flanagin A, Metzger M (2000) Perceptions of internet information credibility. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 77:3 515-540.

Gigerenzer H, Gaissmaier W (2011) Heuristic decision making. Annual Review of Psychology 62: 451-482.

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*Green MC, Brock TC (2000) The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 701-721.

*Greer J, Pan P (2015) The role of website format, blog use, and information-gathering acquaintance in online message assessment. Telematics and Informatics 32:4 594-602.

*Gunther A (1988) Attitude extremity and trust in media. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 65:2 279-287.

Gunther A (1992) Biased press or biased public? Attitudes toward media coverage of social groups. Public Opinion Quarterly 56:2 147-167.

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt F, Huber CS (2012) The influence of the congruence between brand and consumer personality on the loyalty to print and online issues of magazine brands. International Journal on Media Management 14:1.

Hermida A, Fletcher F, Korell D, Logan D (2012) Share, like, recommend: decoding the social media news consumer. Journalism Studies 13:5-6 815-824. 

Hmielowski J, Feldman L, Myers T, Leiserowitz A, Maibach E (2013) An attack on science? Media use, trust in scientists, and perceptions of global warming. Public Understanding of Science 23: 866-883.

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*Johnson T, Kaye B (1998) Cruising is believing?: Comparing internet and traditional sources on media credibility measures. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 75:2 325-340.

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*Kelton K, Fleischmann K, Wallace W (2008) Trust in digital information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59:3 363-374. 

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*Levine M, Hiatt A, Shapiro M (2015) Readers will finish long stories—especially if they come from a trusted source. Columbia Journalism Review.

*Lin M, Lee B (2012) The influence of website environment on brand loyalty: brand trust and brand affect as mediators. International Journal of Electronic Business Management 10:4 308-321.

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*Lucassen T, Schraagen J (2012) Propensity to trust and the influence of source and medium cues in credibility evaluation. Journal of Information Science 38:6 566-577.

*Manjoo F (2013) You won’t finish this article: why people online don’t read to the end. Slate.

Marshall R, WoonBong N (2003) An experimental study of the role of brand strength in the relationship between the medium of communication and perceived credibility of the message. Journal of Interactive Marketing 17:3 75-79.

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Metzger M, Flanagin A (2013) Credibility and trust of information in online environments: the use of cognitive heuristics. Journal of Pragmatics 59:B 210-220. 

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Nah S, Chung D (2012) When citizens meet both professional and citizen journalists: social trust, media credibility, and perceived journalistic roles among online community news readers. Journalism 13:6 714-730.

*Norc at the University of Chicago (1973-2014) Confidence in press.

Nyhan B, Reifler J (2010) When corrections fail: the persistence of political misperceptions. Political Behavior 32:2 303-330.

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*Riffkin R (2015) Americans’ trust in media remains at historical low. Gallup.

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*Shiv B, Carmon Z, Ariely D (2005) Placebo effects of marketing actions: consumers may get what they pay for. Journal of Marketing Research 42:4 383–393.

*Shiv B, Carmon Z, Ariely D (2005) Ruminating about placebo effects of marketing actions. Journal of Marketing Research 42:4 410–414. 

*Simmons G (2007) “i-branding”: developing the internet as a branding tool. Marketing Intelligence & Planning 25:6 544-562. 

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*Slater MD, Rouner D, Long M (2006), Television Dramas and Support for Controversial Public Policies: Effects and Mechanisms. Journal of Communication, 56: 235–252. 

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Tarkiainen A (2014) Creating loyalty towards magazine websites: insights from the double jeopardy phenomenon. International Journal of E-Business Research 10:1. 

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Danny Funt, Chava Gourarie, and Jack Murtha are CJR Delacorte Fellows.