A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Credibility and computing technology
Communications of the ACM
What makes Web sites credible?: a report on a large quantitative study
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Believe it or not: factors influencing credibility on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Judgement of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Prominence-interpretation theory: explaining how people assess credibility online
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How do users evaluate the credibility of Web sites?: a study with over 2,500 participants
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Designing for user experiences
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Perceptions of credibility of scholarly information on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The influence of structural and message features on Web site credibility
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Credibility: A multidisciplinary framework
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
PodCred: a framework for analyzing podcast preference
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Information credibility on the web
How and why do college students use Wikipedia?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Crowdsourcing credibility: the impact of audience feedback on web page credibility
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
A conceptualization of interaction with genres in the context of information practices
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Augmenting web pages and search results to support credibility assessment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information quality assessment of community generated content: A user study of Wikipedia
Journal of Information Science
Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
Journal of Management Information Systems
Age differences in credibility judgment of online health information
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Not all lies are spontaneous: an examination of deception across different modes of communication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Propensity to trust and the influence of source and medium cues in credibility evaluation
Journal of Information Science
College students' credibility judgments and heuristics concerning Wikipedia
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How people assess cooperatively authored information resources
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Age differences in credibility judgments of online health information
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Inferring and validating skills and competencies over time
Applied Ontology
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This article presents a unifying framework of credibility assessment in which credibility is characterized across a variety of media and resources with respect to diverse information seeking goals and tasks. The initial data were collected through information-activity diaries over a 10-day period from 24 undergraduate students at three different colleges. Based on 245 information seeking activities from the diaries, the authors conducted individual interviews with participants and analyzed the transcripts using a grounded theory analysis. Three distinct levels of credibility judgments emerged: construct, heuristics, and interaction. The construct level pertains to how a person constructs, conceptualizes, or defines credibility. The heuristics level involves general rules of thumb used to make judgments of credibility applicable to a variety of situations. Finally, the interaction level refers to credibility judgments based on content, peripheral source cues, and peripheral information object cues. In addition, context emerged as the social, relational and dynamic frames surrounding the information seeker and providing boundaries of credibility judgments. The implications of the framework in terms of its theoretical contribution to credibility research and practices are discussed.