Online credibility and digital ethos evaluating computer-mediated communication /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Folk, Moe, 1972-, Apostel, Shawn, 1971-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.
• Subjects: Digital media > Evaluation.; Electronic information resources > Evaluation.; Telematics > Social aspects.; Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.; Mass media > Technological innovations.; Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.; Trust.; Blogs; Computer-mediated communication; Digital genres; Digital technology; Evaluating credibility; Freeware ratings
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book highlights important approaches to evaluating the creditability of digital sources and techniques used for various digital fields, presenting research in the area of computer mediated communication and how it currently affects digital culture and online credibility"--Provided by...

Table of Contents:

• On pixels, perceptions, and personae: toward a model of online ethos / Todd S. Frobish
• Online trust: a moving target / Natasha Dwyer
• Online credibility and information labor: infrastructure reverberating through ethos / Nathan Johnson
• Establishing ethos on proprietary and open source software websites / Kevin Brock
• The ethos of online publishing: building and sustaining an inclusive future for digital scholarship / Joe Erickson, Kristine Blair
• The query is just the beginning: exploring search-related decision-making of young adults / Veronica Maidel, Dmitry Epstein
• Ethos [edit]: procedural rhetoric and the Wikipedia project / Ryan McGrady
• Credibility in web search engines / Dirk Lewandowski
• The special case of youth and digital information credibility / Miriam J. Metzger ... [et al.]
• The credibility of Sources 2.0 in journalism: case study in Portugal / Paulo Serra, João Canavilhas
• Whose news can you trust?: a framework for evaluating the credibility of online news sources for diaspora populations / Rick Malleus
• Digital parrhesia as a counterweight to astroturfing / Nicholas Gilewicz, François Allard-Huver
• Establishing credibility in the information jungle: blogs, microblogs, and the CRAAP test / Dawn Emsellem Wichowski, Laura E. Kohl
• Building a professional ethos on LinkedIn / Christy Oslund
• Online identity formation and digital ethos building in the Chinese blogosphere / Zixue Tai, Yonghua Zhang
• Theory and application: using social networking to build online credibility / Misty L. Knight ... [et al.]
• Ethical challenges for user-generated content publishing: comparing public service media and commercial media / Ceren Sözeri
• The cyber-propelled Egyptian revolution and the de/construction of ethos / Samaa Gamie
• "I rolled the dice with trade chat and this is what I got": demonstrating context-dependent credibility in virtual worlds / Wendi Sierra, Doug Eyman
• Documentary at play / Inge Ejbye Sørensen, Anne Mette Thorhauge
• Press C? to play the ocarina: rhetoric and game music / Dan W. Lawrence.