Social Media as Information Source: Recency of Updates and Credibility of Information

By David Keith Westerman, Patric R. Spence, Brandon Van Der Heide. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Detecting Fake News in Social Media Networks (2018, background): “The reason behind the involvement of firms such as Facebook in the issue concerning fake news is because the emergence and subsequent development of social media platforms have served to exacerbate the problem [27].”
Investigating the Effects of Media Consumption on Attitudes Toward Police Legitimacy (2018, background): “…this area of research is the examination of contemporary types of media, such as the Internet and social media, which have shown tremendous growth in the number of users in the past 15 years and are major sources for news and information (Perrin 2015; Perrin and Duggan 2015; Westerman et al. 2014).”
Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media (2017, background): “Studies have looked at credibility perceptions of users [Westerman et al. 2014] and have also assessed the degree to which users rely on social media to gather information such as news [Gottfried and Shearer 2016].”
Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online (2018, neutral): “For example, we did not manipulate the recency of images posted (all images were presented with random 2015 dates), which could influence credibility judgments (Westerman et al., 2014).”
How Corporate Social Advocacy Affects Attitude Change Toward Controversial Social Issues (2020, background): “Corporate credibility is defined as the perception that a corporation possesses expertise, trustworthiness, and goodwill (Goldsmith et al., 2000; Westerman et al., 2014).”
How Parents and Their Children Used Social Media and Technology at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Anxiety (2020, positive): “As an example, social media is used by government agencies to field and dispense information to effectively manage disasters,(3) and it is a convenient forum for citizens to post or gather information, seek social support, and express anxieties associated with traumatic events.(4,5) Notably, Li, Jia”
News Recommendations from Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects on Media Trust and Information Seeking (2015, background): “…worth noting that scholars have recently found that the recency of social media activity enhances the perceived credibility of the message sender (Westerman et al., 2014); although we elected to utilize a friend with frequent social media interactions with the participant to increase the…”