How Credible is Information on the Web: Reflections on Misinformation and Disinformation

Keshavarz, Hamid How Credible is Information on the Web: Reflections on Misinformation and Disinformation. Infopreneurship Journal , 2014, vol. 1, n. 2, pp. 1-17. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper seeks to investigate credibility, misinformation and disinformation as concepts highly correlated to the quality of information sources so as to encourage users to bear them in mind when searching for information via the web. Issues as to how users can make distinction among web information sources when confronting questionable ones are discussed. Exploring within an extensive, but not comprehensive, body of works related to the main issues, the paper attempts to integrate them into a conceptual framework and even to find criteria by which web resources could be evaluated. Using some information skills like checklists, critical thinking and information literacy, users can considerably lessen challenges posed by searching for credible information from the web. Aside from novelty of the two concepts misinformation and disinformation in the information behavior literature, the paper provides a framework for the concepts explored and a list of proposed solutions by which credibility of web information could be assessed.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: information, information use, disinformation, misinformation, web
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
Depositing user: mr mahmood khosrowjerdi
Date deposited: 11 Jul 2014 14:37
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:32
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/23451

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