Do you retweet heath advice on microblogging platforms? The effects of health topic and website design on credibility assessment

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 4281-4291

  Jiang, Junhui ^a   Tong, Yu ^b   Tan, Sharon Swee Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

E health; Information seeking; Strategies; User generated content; Website design

Indexed keywords

EHEALTH; INFORMATION SEEKING; STRATEGIES; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WEB SITE DESIGN;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

HEALTH;

EID: 84886542264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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