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This study was designed to compare the credibility of news posted on news media-sponsored World Wide Web homepages, organization-sponsored homepages, or shown on television. There is evident concern among journalists over the public's perception of news credibility, and it seems there is an intuitive link between high channel credibility and increased use of that channel or medium. However, this study provides evidence that media credibility is only of secondary importance to news users as they decide where to get their news. While people do make credibility judgments about the news channels they use, they do not necessarily choose to use or not use a channel based on its perceived credibility.
This book introduces readers to Web content credibility evaluation and evaluation support. It highlights empirical research and establishes a solid foundation for future research by presenting methods of supporting credibility evaluation of online content, together with publicly available datasets for reproducible experimentation, such as the Web Content Credibility Corpus. The book is divided into six chapters. After a general introduction in Chapter 1, including a brief survey of credibility evaluation in the social sciences, Chapter 2 presents definitions of credibility and related concepts of truth and trust. Next, Chapter 3 details methods, algorithms and user interfaces for systems supporting Web content credibility evaluation. In turn, Chapter 4 takes a closer look at the credibility of social media, exemplified in sections on Twitter, Q&A systems, and Wikipedia, as well as fake news detection. In closing, Chapter 5 presents mathematical and simulation models of credibility evaluation, before a final round-up of the book is provided in Chapter 6. Overall, the book reviews and synthesizes the current state of the art in Web content credibility evaluation support and fake news detection. It provides researchers in academia and industry with both an incentive and a basis for future research and development of Web content credibility evaluation support services.
This volume offers unique and timely insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. It provides an overview of online newspapers, including current trends and legal issues and covering issues of credibility and perceptions by online news users. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies-mostly social surveys-coming out of the media effects and uses traditions. The chapters are grounded in theoretical frameworks and bring much-needed theory to the study of online news. The frameworks guiding these studies include media credibility, the third-person effect, media displacement, and uses and gratifications. The book ends with a section devoted to research on online news postings. This book is appropriate for scholars, researchers, and students in journalism, mass communication, new media, and related areas, and will be of interest to anyone examining how people use the web as a source for news.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether audiences are sensitive to the credibility and identity of the various news providers on the World Wide Web and, if so, what are the effects of perceived source credibility and identity on cognitive, attitudinal, and conative responses to the online news services and their content, both news and advertising. An experiment was conducted with two different samples, a convenience sample of 471 undergraduate students, and a sample of 402 Midwestern community residents, more than half of them recruited randomly. The main manipulation, identity of an online news provider, had four levels: a newspaper online (source identified, associated with journalism); a television network online (source identified, associated with journalism, but representing a different medium), a travel agency online (source identified, no association with journalism), and no identity (control, also testing the default inferences about the particular Web news service viewed). An exploratory part of the study found people are sensitive to source, specifically whether it is identified or not; to the content presented in the media; and to the technology that delivers the content. Tests of twelve hypotheses showed people are also sensitive to the identity of the online content provider, specifically whether it is associated with journalism or not and whether it is specialized in a particular area. Further, participants differed in their responses to a newspaper online and a television network online. Among the four experimental conditions, sources associated with journalism, e.g., an online newspaper or a television network online, were found most credible. Stories and ads in them were perceived as most credible. Stories were more likely to be correctly recalled if the source was perceived to be a newspaper. There was also some evidence for better ad recall and ad claim recognition in the newspaper and television conditions. Attitudes toward the stories were most positive in the newspaper as perceived source. Attitudes toward the brands were the best in the television condition and there was also evidence the newspaper condition was positively associated with attitudes toward the brands. Finally, likelihood of subscribing to the online news service was the highest among those participants in the student sample who perceived the online source as a newspaper.
Modern mainstream journalism faces a very real disturbance of its foundational premise that credible news is gathered and articulated from an objective stance. This volume offers new examinations of how the traditional notion of objectivity is changing as professional journalists grapple with a rapidly evolving news terrain--one that has become increasingly crowded by those with no journalistic credentials. Examining historical antecedents, current dilemmas, international aspects, and theoretical considerations, contributors make the case that the journalist's impulse to hold onto objectivity, and to ignore the increasing subjectivities to which citizens are attuned, actually contributes to the news media's disconnect from today's news consumer. Revealing how traditional journalism needs to incorporate "post-objective" stances, these essays stimulate further thought and conversation about news with a view in both theory and practice.
Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The Handbook aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet, its role in everyday life and work, implications for communication, power, and influence, and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The Handbook is a landmark in this new interdisciplinary field, not only helping to strengthen research on the key questions, but also shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry.
This book explores the growing phenomenon of online news from a variety of perspectives, identifying trends in online news and presenting a collection of original research investigations about the newest medium of mass communication.
Digital technology plays a vital role in today's need for instant information access. The simplicity of acquiring and publishing online information presents new challenges in establishing and evaluating online credibility. Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication highlights important approaches to evaluating the credibility of digital sources and techniques used for various digital fields. This book brings together research in computer mediated communication along with the affects digital culture and online credibility.