THE MEDIATIZATION OF NETWORK GOVERNANCE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALIZED NEWS AND MEDIATIZED POLITICS ON TRUST AND PERCEIVED NETWORK PERFORMANCE

Despite the importance of news media and their commercial logic for society at large and politics in particular, the impact of media and media logic on network governance processes is often disregarded. In this article we examine the effects of commercialized news and mediatized politics on trust between network actors and perceived network performance. Our study draws on a survey of project managers involved in urban spatial projects in the four largest cities in the Netherlands (N = 141). The results show that commercialized news and mediatized politics negatively affect trust relations between network actors. Commercialized news has a direct effect on the perceived network performance.