Perceptions of Internet Information Credibility

By Andrew J. Flanagin, Miriam J. Metzger. 2000

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

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Taking Fake Online Consumer Reviews Seriously (2013, background): “Other research confirms that consumers regard web-based information to be equally credible to that obtained from traditional media (Flanagin and Metzger 2000) and frequently turn to online ratings and reputation systems to assist with product and seller evaluations (Pinch and”
Predicting information credibility in time-sensitive social media (2013, methodology): “We can observe that the feature independence assumption of the Naive Bayes method achieves very poor performance results which are significantly outperformed by the Bayesian network.”
Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility (2010, background): “These items, or a subset of these items, have been used in a number of studies across a variety of contexts, including online news articles and Web blogs (Flanagin & Metzger, 2000, 2007; Greer, 2003; Johnson & Kaye, 2004).”
Trust in News Media (2007, background): “In fact, West considered the Gaziano-McGrath scales as “the only set of scales for the measurement of media credibility to have undergone validation” (p. 160). In a confirmatory factor analysis, West tested the two different scales by Gaziano and McGrath as well as the two Meyer scales with new data”
Information credibility on twitter (2011, background): “People trust the Internet as a news source as much as other media, with the exception of newspapers [8].”
A (Blurry) Vision of the Future: How Leader Rhetoric about Ultimate Goals Influences Performance (2014, background): “We tested for whether participants believed that the vision resembled what they would encounter in a real organization with a three-item scale on message credibility (Flanagin & Metzger, 2000).”
Trust Online: Young Adults' Evaluation of Web Content (2010, background): “Credibility assessment can act as a filter that sifts out inaccuracies, providing users with the content that they find most believable (Flanagin & Metzger, 2000; Wathen & Burkell, 2002).”
Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News (2020, methodology): “Story and source credibility were measured using items developed by Flanagin and Metzger (2000).”
Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks (2015, methodology): “We evaluate this approach by examining tens of thousands of claims related to history, entertainment, geography, and biographical information using a public knowledge graph extracted fromWikipedia.”
A Transformer-based Framework for Neutralizing and Reversing the Political Polarity of News Articles (2021, background): “People often prefer to consume news with similar political predispositions and access like-minded views [32, 64].”
Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Construct, heuristics, and interaction in context (2008, background): “A few researchers (e.g., Flanagin & Metzger, 2000; Sundar, 2007), have paid attention to the heuristics of credibility assessment lying behind general credibility perceptions.”
A Little Bird Told Me, So I Didn't Believe It: Twitter, Credibility, and Issue Perceptions (2012, background): “Flanagin and Metzger (2000) reached a similar conclusion.”
Psychological Approaches to Credibility Assessment Online (2015, methodology): “…and Internet self-efficacy are positively related to the amount of effort users exert to verify the credibility of information they find online (Flanagin & Metzger, 2000; Hong, 2006), and other research has shown that topic experts employ more cues to evaluate the quality of a website's…”
Credibility in the blogosphere: A study of measurement and influence of wine blogs as an information source (2015, background): “Flanagin and Metzger (2001) observe that the perceptions and usage habits of media are evolving and the Web is used to obtain information more than magazines, newspapers, books, television, e-mail,”
Effects of online advertising format and persuasion knowledge on audience reactions (2012, background): “It is particularly important to study these different online formats, because information on the Internet can be dubious or difficult to appraise (Flanagin and Metzger 2000 ).”