A social network as information: The effect of system generated reports of connectedness on credibility on Twitter

By David Keith Westerman, Patric R. Spence, Brandon Van Der Heide. Computers in Human Behavior, 2012

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Communication

1. Toni G.L.A. van der Meer
2. Ward van Zoonen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Toni G.L.A. van der Meer
2. Ward van Zoonen

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Toni G.L.A. van der Meer
2. Ward van Zoonen

Citations in the corpus

• Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online (2018, background): “Social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter introduce a host of system-gener-ated metrics (e.g. number of followers) as cognitive heuristics for credibility judgment (Sundar, 2008; Westerman et al., 2012, 2014).”
• The Importance of Source and Credibility Perception in Times of Crisis: Crisis Communication in a Socially Mediated Era (2015, background): “On social media, users personally determine the believability of the communicator, as the gatekeeping function shifts from the producers of content to the consumers of content (Shoemaker & Vos, 2009; Westerman et al., 2012).”