Topic familiarity and information skills in online credibility evaluation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 254-264

  Lucassen, Teun ^a   Muilwijk, Rienco ^a   Noordzij, Matthijs L ^a   Schraagen, Jan Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

domain knowledge; skills; trust

Indexed keywords

CREDIBILITY EVALUATION; DOMAIN EXPERTISE; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SKILLS; SURFACE FEATURE; THINKING ALOUD; TRUST; USER CHARACTERISTICS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84872980048     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22743     Document Type: Article

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