Crowdsourcing credibility: The impact of audience feedback on Web page credibility

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Del Giudice, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility; Social information use; Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255161687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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