Does the medium affect the message? the effect of congruent versus incongruent display on critical reading

Human Systems Management

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 243-251

  Eshet Alkalai, Yoram ^a   Geri, Nitza ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

critical thinking; disinformation and bias; human computer interaction; Information literacy; information representation; real value of information

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL THINKING; DISINFORMATION AND BIAS; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION REPRESENTATION; REAL VALUE OF INFORMATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650370468     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2010-0730     Document Type: Article

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