Quantifying the trustworthiness of social media content

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-260

  Moturu, Sai T ^a,b   Liu, Huan ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content; Quality; Social media; Trust evaluation; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

CONTENT; FEATURE IDENTIFICATION; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; SCORING MODELS; SEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRUST EVALUATION; TRUSTWORTHINESS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79958288895     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-010-7077-0     Document Type: Article

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