Webelievability: A Path Model Examining How Convenience and Reliance Predict Online Credibility

By Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Trust Online: Young Adults' Evaluation of Web Content (2010, background): “Research suggests that credibility is analogous to the concept of believability (Tseng & Fogg, 1999; Wathan & Burkell, 2002; Johnson & Kaye, 2002).”
A social network as information: The effect of system generated reports of connectedness on credibility on Twitter (2012, background): “To date, research has examined several other avenues with regard to online credibility, including site design features (e.g., Fogg et al., 2001), source attributions (e.g., Sundar & Nass, 2001), and the role of users’ reliance on web-based information (e.g., Johnson & Kaye, 2002).”
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’…”
Psychological Approaches to Credibility Assessment Online (2015, background): “…showed that users with greater Internet experience were better able to determine which features of websites indicated higher information quality and were more likely to lead to an accurate assessment of credibility (Flanagin & Metzger, 2007; Freeman & Spyridakis, 2004; Johnson & Kaye, 2000, 2002).”
YouTube-ification of Political Talk: An Examination of Persuasion Appeals in Viral Video (2011, background): “Johnson and Kaye (2002) also found that consumers of online political information in 2000 were more trusting of online sources compared to Internet users surveyed in 1996, an increase in credibility attributed to consumers’ increased familiarity with the medium, among other factors.”
Going to the Blogs: Toward the Development of a Uses and Gratifications Measurement Scale for Blogs (2010, methodology): “The nonrandom sampling procedures used in this study follows the method used in other published research of Internet use (Johnson & Kaye, 2002, 2003a, 2003b; Kaye & Johnson, 2002), and it also includes a snowball method that has been employed in other published studies (Johnson & Kaye, 2004;…”
behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification (2007, background): “…2001b; Johnson and Kaye, 1998; Palmer et al., 2000; Shon et al., 2000), cross-media comparisons (Flanagin and Metzger, 2000; Kiousis, 2001; Sundar, 1999), source attributions (Sundar and Nass, 2000, 2001), and the role of users’ reliance on web-based information (Johnson and Kaye, 2000, 2002).”