Explores and interrogates the relationship between media and trust. This work begins by examining the decline of trust in key institutions and the relationship between Trust Studies and Media Studies. It concludes by delineating three emergent themes, before outlining implications for media communication and future directions for research.

"Communication in the Age of Suspicion" explores and interrogates the relationship between media and trust. It begins by examining the decline of trust in key institutions and the relationship between Trust Studies and Media Studies. Fourteen international contributions follow, focusing on a variety of genres and examining a number of media forms. Can we speak of the end of Trust? The book concludes by delineating three emergent themes, before outlining implications for media communication and future directions for research in this "Age of Suspicion".

Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - PART 1: COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF SUSPICION - The Age of Suspicion
V.Bakir &
D.Barlow - Exploring Relationships between
Trust Studies and Media Studies
V.Bakir &
D.Barlow - PART 2: MEDIA AND EROSION OF TRUST - Origins of the
Problem of Trust: Propaganda during the First World War
M.Redley - The Erosion of Trust in Australian Public Life
J.Archer - Manufacturing Authenticity in a Small Nation: The Case of Independent Local Radio in Wales
D.Barlow - Terrorism and the Microdynamics of Trust
B.Richards - Risk, Advice and Trust: How Service Journalism
Fails its Audience
J.Collins - 'Trust Me, I'm A Doctor': MMR and the Politics Of Suspicion
C.Critcher -
New Media Enterprise in the Age of Suspicion
G.Allard - Trust, Data-mining and Instantaneity: The Creation of the Online Accountable Consumer
A.McStay - PART 3: MEDIA AND BUILDING TRUST - Risk Communication, Television News
and Trust Generation: The Utility of Ethos
V.Bakir - The Media's Role in a Transition Society: From Public Lies
to Public Trust?
K.Tampere - Trust in a Time of Crisis: The Mass Media as a Guardian of Trust
A.Mehta -
'It Was a Mascara Runnin' Kinda Day': Oprah Winfrey, Confession, Celebrity and the Formation of Trust
S.Wilson
- Branding Trust: The Ideology of Making Truth Claims Through Interactive Media
J.Jones - The Technology of Distrust
G.Gumpert &
S.J.Drucker - PART 4: CONCLUSIONS: TRUST AND THE MEDIA - The End of Trust?
V.Bakir &
D.Barlow - References - Index