Trust and media: research based on factors that affect trust in exterritorial media BBC Persian and VOA Persian news with comparative approach (case of study: citizens of Tabriz).

Subject Areas : Media Management

saber jafari ¹ (nothinh)

Received: 2018-09-01 Accepted : 2019-06-13 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: the use of external media and positive evaluation of the performance the internal media, trust in the news, sex, religiousness,

Abstract :

this article has been completed based on information gained from the trend sociological study of BBC Persian and VOA Persian degree of trust in their news in the Tabriz city. In this research, target population were in the age range of 15 -34 that all of them were the citizens of Tabriz and all of them were 579694, of which 400 people were selected through. The data were collected by questionnaire then for data analysis SPSS statistical analysis software were used. Based on the results, the trust in the BBC Persian news was medium (ordinary) and the confidence on the VOA Persian news was relatively low. The results of independent sample T-test show that trust in BBC Persian and VOA Persian news is different base on gender of respondents, and the results of pearson correlation test for dependent variable of trust in BBC Persian news show that the variables of the use of external media, the positive evaluation of the performance of the internal media and religiousness are related to this variable and variables of use of the external media and religiousness were related with variable of trust of VOA news. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that among independent variables, the gender of respondents and the use of external and foreign media like BBC Persian and VOA news variables on the trust were recognized.