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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">30733</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-1-200-208</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>JOURNALISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Журналистика</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">News Media Trust and Sources of Political Information in West Africa: Mainstream vs. New Media in Ghana and Nigeria</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Доверие к новостным СМИ как источникам политической информации в Западной Африке: признанные vs. новые медиа в Гане и Нигерии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8239-5808</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Mustapha</surname><given-names>Jamiu M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мустафа</surname><given-names>Мухаммед Джамиу</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Department of Mass Communication, Philological Faculty</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>ассистент кафедры массовых коммуникаций, филологический факультет</p></bio><email>mustafa-md@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9608-352X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Shilina</surname><given-names>Marina G.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шилина</surname><given-names>Марина Григорьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Professor</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>профессор</p></bio><email>marina.shilina@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7584</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Agyei</surname><given-names>Obiri S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Агьеи</surname><given-names>Стивен Обири</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD Candidate of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант кафедры психологии и педагогики филологического факультета</p></bio><email>stephenobiri99@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-8894</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ocansey</surname><given-names>Carbukie R.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Оканси</surname><given-names>Рут Карбуки</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer at Department of Communication Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель кафедры коммуникационных исследований</p></bio><email>ruth.ocansey@upsamail.edu.gh</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Plekhanov Russian University of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский экономический университет им. Г.В. Плеханова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff3"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff4"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University for Professional Studies</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет профессиональных исследований</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-04-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 27, NO1 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 27, №1 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>200</fpage><lpage>208</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-04-01"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Mustapha J.M., Shilina M.G., Agyei O.S., Ocansey C.R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Мустафа М.Д., Шилина М.Г., Агьеи С.О., Оканси Р.К.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Mustapha J.M., Shilina M.G., Agyei O.S., Ocansey C.R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мустафа М.Д., Шилина М.Г., Агьеи С.О., Оканси Р.К.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/30733">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/30733</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Like many other developed democracies, most democratic countries in West Africa are facing challenges of trust in news media for political information, particularly with the emergence of the non-mainstream media - new social media. Previous research revealed that alternative news media trust is correlated with lower levels of trust in news in Africa and that the presence of private media have failed to offer alternative sources to government media. This paper for the first time seeks to investigate reasons for the increase in distrust in news media among the mainstream and non-mainstream media in West African Ghana and Nigeria, which is the main source for political information in the region. We conducted the study through online surveys for the audience of news media in Ghana and Nigeria who are interested in political news and are frequent users of both mainstream media and new social media for political information. We found out that even though people in these two countries use social media as an alternative source of obtaining political information, yet, they largely still trust mainstream media news for political information rather than social media.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Как и многие развитые демократии, большинство демократических стран Западной Африки сталкиваются с проблемами доверия к средствам массовой информации как источникам политической информации, особенно с появлением новых социальных медиа. Проводившиеся ранее исследования показали, что доверие к альтернативным средствам массовой информации коррелирует с более низким уровнем доверия к новостям в Африке и что частные медиа не являются альтернативой государственным СМИ. В данной статье впервые делается попытка исследовать причины роста недоверия к официальным и новым медиа в Западной Африке, Гане и Нигерии, как основным источникам политической информации в регионе. Метод исследования: онлайн-опрос аудитории средств массовой информации в Нигерии и Гане, которая интересуется политическими новостями и использует как официальные, так и новые медиа для получения политической информации. Результаты исследования показали, что хотя респонденты в Гане и Нигерии используют новые медиа в качестве альтернативного источника получения политической информации, однако в целом доверяют политическим новостям не в социальных сетях, а в официальных СМИ.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>political information</kwd><kwd>news trust</kwd><kwd>West African media</kwd><kwd>mainstream media</kwd><kwd>new social media</kwd><kwd>uses and gratification theory</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>политическая информация</kwd><kwd>доверие к новостям</kwd><kwd>западноафриканские СМИ</kwd><kwd>официальные СМИ</kwd><kwd>новые социальные медиа</kwd><kwd>теория использования и удовлетворения</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Andrade, C. (2020). The Limitations of Online Surveys. 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