Media trust among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
Journal: Current Issues of Mass Communication
Year: 2022

The worldwide pandemic exacerbated the new role of the media. If pre-viously the discussion was on whether new or traditional media hadprimacy in popularity and exposure, nowadays the question is whethercommunicating health issues through social and traditional media leads to a better understanding of their content and more trust in both types of media. We surveyed Ukrainian university students to examine their a tti-tude towards information on coronavirus presented in the media. Resultsshowed t