Prof.dr. Marc Verboord receives a 2025 ODISSEI LISS panel Grant which offers funding for data collection via the LISS panel for the project “How does Performance Impact the Legitimacy of News Media? An Audience Perspective”. Through this grant, scientists receive free panel time to field their own questions in a representative survey.
The project will study the notion of legitimacy in journalism in the Netherlands from an audience perspective. Respondents will receive vignettes with fictious descriptions of how specific media types (social media, public broadcasters, private broadcasters) report on an emergency event. Theoretically relevant elements of the report (immediacy, accuracy, depth, bias perceptions) are manipulated and varied in different versions of the vignette. Vignettes are evaluated in terms of how legitimacy is perceived. This enables us to assess the relative importance of these media performance elements, while also taking into account personal background of the respondent.
The LISS panel (Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences) is based on a true probability sample of households, drawn from the population register by Statistics Netherlands. It consists of 5,000 households, comprising approximately 7,500 individuals of 16 years and older. The submissions have been assessed by an independent and interdisciplinary committee.
