“Quiet Trendsetters Study Highlights Distrust of Social Media, with Implications for the Political Class”

[this post is inspired by a Cision article]

Quiet Trendsetters?

Quiet Trendsetters: people less likely to be vocal about their attitudes and opinions, highlights both the use of and distrust of social media.

Why it matters?

The results have implications as politicians ramp up their use of social media going into 2020.

Boredom or curiosity but both with caution.

Many turn to social media out of boredom or curiosity about what friends and family are up to.  A few say they only log in when they are seeking specific information. However, these Quiet Trendsetters also see a dark side to social media and agree caution is needed when using these platforms. 

No fame-seeking and less impact from “influencers”.

Politicians eying 2020 runs can feel confident that  Quiet Trendsetters will accept their social media use –  this group  understands their need to use social media as one more tool for outreach.  However, they accept it as a means rather than an end. So candidates must stay on message and not appear to be fame-seeking.  

Another caution is that, collectively, Quiet Trendsetters are less trusting of what they see on social media and than they may have been in the past and appear to be less impacted by the “influencer” model.  To reach this population, social media engagement must be completely authentic. 

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Inversely proportionated.

The more Important a news topic is for daily life, the less interesting it is to follow.

Weather, Crime and traffic are top important for daily life but definitely not topics to follow.

Gov and Politics #1 in not important for daily life and a third of interest to follow vs Restaurants, Clubs and Bars.

This is to be related to:

The decline of local newspapers impact on democracy.

and this, to save a declining situation:

“Local leads to trust”

taken seriously by Google, Facebook, Knight Foundation, Automatic…

Saving journalism. [updated 2/19/19]

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Online lie detector or Machine learning how to lie.

Interesting article in Wired “RESEARCHERS BUILT AN ‘ONLINE LIE DETECTOR.’ HONESTLY, THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM”

Yes, it’s a first attempt. Yes, it should be taken very cautiously.
But yes, it has merit.

Typing and writing.

The way you type and the words you use show a level of lie or truth, from your standpoint. While recording and analyzing the typing part sounds more like a lie detection test, the word used are, in fact, much more accurate.

TrustedOut uses a similar method.

As mentioned, TrustedOut uses extensively machine learning. In this previous post, we explained how machine learning is the basis of our classification. For taxonomy or how to spot how a media is perceived on the internet.

The How and What: Mixing attitude and expertise.

Now, imagine you mix an attitude, such as lying or being blunt, or positive, or sarcastic and a taxonomy classification, and you mix two or more classifications based on machine learning. And you get the how and what…

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According to VisionCritical: “trust [in Media] among the informed public in the U.S. plunged 23 points to 45, making it the lowest of the 28 countries surveyed. The collapse of trust is driven by a staggering lack of faith in government. This fell 14 points to 33 percent among the general population, and 30 points to 33 percent among the informed public. [Numbers are for the USA]”

63% can’t recognize journalism from rumors.

“The 2018 Trust Barometer found 63 percent of respondents don’t know how to tell good journalism from rumor, or whether a respected media organization had produced a piece of news. But the public doesn’t rely solely on news media organizations to stay informed. We also use search engines and social media. The irony is that these platforms—once hailed as the future of media—are hurting too. The rising distrust of traditional media comes at a time when social media giants such as Facebook are facing intense scrutiny about their role in spreading disinformation. The Huffington Post recently announced it would no longer rely on unpaid bloggers.”

Journalism for the win!

It’s all about brand values.

We recently published in “Why customer trust is more vital to [media] brand survival than it’s ever been” :

Gaining trust: demonstrate [media] brand clarity of purpose and core values and be transparent with all policies and procedures.

“Board and staff members need to adhere to these ethical standards as, in effect, they are the brand and only they can elicit consumer trust,” he [Director of brand agency Hulsbosch, Jaid Hulsbosch] says.

To do this, a corporation and its brand needs to be determined to demonstrate brand clarity of purpose and core values and be transparent with all policies and procedures”

Profiling Media Brands to secure trust in analytics and brand safety.

Brand values for any business, including Media, are the foundation of trust for customers, readers. Understanding them is the solution to secure trust in analytics support for strategic decision making and totally secure advertiser’s brand within a campaign.

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