Fake vs. real health information in social media in China

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 742-743

  Li, Yuelin ^a   Zhang, Xiu ^a   Wang, Shanshan ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fake and real health information; features of fake information; health information; information quality

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHI-SQUARE TESTS; FAKE AND REAL HEALTH INFORMATION; FEATURE OF FAKE INFORMATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION QUALITY; LOW QUALITIES; QUALITY INFORMATION; SALIENT FEATURES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

HEALTH;

EID: 85040773507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401139     Document Type: Article

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