Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users

By Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Social and Heuristic Approaches to Credibility Evaluation Online (2010, background): “…have sought to understand credibility processes and perceptions of user-created and shared content (for exceptions, see Banning & Sweetser, 2007; Johnson & Kaye, 2004), nor have researchers explicitly investigated how individuals employ or access social collaborative efforts to evaluate…”
Role of Social Media in Shaping Public Risk Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review (2021, background): “Johnson & Kaye (2004) found that that credibility is higher for blogs in comparison with traditional media like television.”
How Audiences Seek Out Crisis Information: Exploring the Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Model (2012, background): “Blog users rate blogs to be their most credible source of information (Johnson & Kaye, 2004), and increased blog reading enhances perceptions of blog credibility (Johnson & Kaye, 2010; Sweetser & Metzgar, 2007), although Americans as a whole rate blog credibility much lower (Banning & Trammell,…”
How Much Do They Think It Affects Them and Whom Do They Believe?: Comparing the Third-Person Effect and Credibility of Blogs and Traditional Media (2007, background): “In their study of the credibility of personal blogs (blogs not run by media organizations), the researchers found that almost all blog readers thought blogs were moderately to very credible (Johnson & Kaye, 2004).”
Perceptions of Cable News Credibility (2013, background): “Investigations of news media credibility tend to examine a single facet of the news media, be it the news media as a whole or specific news media types (see, e.g., Eveland & Shah, 2003; Johnson & Kaye, 2004; Jones, 2004; Lee, 2005, 2010; Morris, 2007).1 In this study, we take a different approach.”
Effects of Online Health Sources on Credibility and Behavioral Intentions (2010, background): “…degree of trust people have in certain media, such as newspapers, television, magazines, radio, and the Internet (e.g., Barning & Trammell, 2006; Johnson & Kaye, 2002, 2004; Newhagen & Nass, 1989; Stavrositu & Sundar, 2008; Walther, Wang, & Loh, 2004), including crossmedia comparisons of users’…”
A Little Bird Told Me, So I Didn't Believe It: Twitter, Credibility, and Issue Perceptions (2012, result): “A series of studies by Johnson and colleagues (Johnson & Kaye, 2004, 2009; Johnson et al., 2008) indicated that blogs were widely considered credible, even by comparison to more traditional news sources.”
A Losing Strategy: The Impact of Nondisclosure in Social Media on Relationships (2010, methodology): “Given the focus on ethical public relations here, this study selected credibility items used in other studies (Johnson & Kaye, 2004; Sweetser & Metzgar, 2007; Sweetser et al., 2008) over less specific variables, such as trust alone as a relational outcome.”
Is There an Elite Hold? Traditional Media to Social Media Agenda Setting Influence in Blog Networks (2009, background): “The initial public derision heaped by traditional media entities on these independent bloggers unaffiliated with traditional, professional newsrooms (Rosen, 2005) continues to wane as these bloggers gain respect among Web readers (Johnson & Kaye, 2004).”
The Effect of Disclosure of Third-Party Influence on an Opinion Leader's Credibility and Electronic Word of Mouth in Two-Step Flow (2014, background): “Social media tools like blogs are increasingly influencing the attitudes and behaviors of the public, in large part because they have come to be perceived as more credible than traditional media outlets (Johnson and Kaye 2004).”
Modeling Information Diffusion in Implicit Networks (2010, background): “Since the credibility of information depends on the type of the source [21], we are interested in estimating the influenc e of a different types of media on the diffusion and adoption of textual phrases.”
Does Being Social Matter? Effects of Enabled Commenting on Credibility and Brand Attitude in Social Media (2015, background): “Social media influencers are increasingly affecting the attitudes and behaviors of their followers, in large part because they are perceived as more credible than traditional media outlets (Johnson & Kaye, 2004).”
YouTube-ification of Political Talk: An Examination of Persuasion Appeals in Viral Video (2011, background): “A survey of blog readers reported that these individuals rate blogs significantly higher than all other sources of information and that they are attracted to blogs because of their depth on information (Johnson & Kaye, 2004).”