The measurement of end-user computing satisfaction
MIS Quarterly
Modern Information Retrieval
Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
Information Systems Research
Great Age Guide to the Internet (Sandy Berger's Great Age Guide)
Great Age Guide to the Internet (Sandy Berger's Great Age Guide)
Managing Information Quality: Increasing the Value of Information in Knowledge-intensive Products and Processes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems
Information Management: An Informing Approach
Information Management: An Informing Approach
Factual accuracy and trust in information: The role of expertise
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
The nature of theory in information systems
MIS Quarterly
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This article discusses people's understanding of reality by representations from the Internet. The Hegelian inquiry system is used here to explain the nature of informing on the Internet as activities of information masters to influence information slaves' opinions and as activities of information slaves to become well informed. The key assumption of Hegelianism regarding information is that information has no value independent from the interests and worldviews (theses) it supports. As part of the dialectic process of generating syntheses, we propose a role for information science of offering methods to critically evaluate the master's information, and by this we develop an opinion (thesis) independent from the master's power. For this we offer multiple methods for information criticism, named triangulation, which may help users to evaluate a master's evidence. This article presents also a prototype of a Hegelian information triangulator tool for information slaves (i.e., nonexperts). The article concludes with suggestions for further research on informative triangulation. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.