The special case of youth and digital information credibility

Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 148-168

  Metzger, Miriam J ^a   Flanagin, Andrew J ^a   Medders, Ryan ^b   Pure, Rebekah ^a   Markov, Alex ^a   Hartsell, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2663-8.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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