Introduction. This article results from a qualitative case study focusing on the information seeking practices of environmental activists. The main attention was devoted to their perceptions of media credibility and cognitive authority in the context of seeking orienting information about environmental issues in particular. Method. The empirical data were gathered in 2005 by semistructured inte...

People making decisions require information about their options. Across a wide range of tasks, they receive information from diverse sources, such as the Web, print, radio and television. As the Internet Age progresses, each decision maker must increasingly assess the credibility of the author, the credibility of the evidence the author cites, and the credibility of the publisher in order to ga...

Web sites often provide the first impression of an organization. For many organizations, web sites are crucial to ensure sales or to procure services within. When a person opens a web site, the first impression is probably made in a few seconds, and the user will either stay or move on to the next site on the basis of many factors. One of the factors that may influence users to stay or go is th...

The study predicted that perceived physical appearance (high or low attractiveness) and job stereotyping (matched or not matched) would interact to affect perceived credibility, such that attractiveness and matched job stereotyped individuals would be perceived as credible, whereas unattractive and unmatched job stereotyped individuals would not be perceived as credible. A total of 118 particip...

Varying philosophical and theoretical orientations to qualitative inquiry remind us that issues of quality and credibility intersect with audience and intended research purposes. This overview examines ways of enhancing the quality and credibility of qualitative analysis by dealing with three distinct but related inquiry concerns: rigorous techniques and methods for gathering and analyzing qual...

Behavioral integrity is the perceived fit between espoused and enacted values. We propose that the maintenance of behavioral integrity is a highly problematic and consequential element of the successful management of change. Support for this view is drawn from the literatures on management fads, transformational leadership, trust and source credibility. Practical implications are developed.

In this paper, we consider a set of articles or reports by journalists or others, wherein they predict or promise something about future. The problem we approach is determining the credibility of the authors based on the predictions coming out to be true. The two specific problems we address are extracting the predictions from the articles and annotating with various prediction attributes. And ...

BACKGROUND Internet sources are becoming increasingly important in seeking health information, such that they may have a significant effect on health care decisions and outcomes. Hence, given the wide range of different sources of Web-based health information (WHI) from different organizations and individuals, it is important to understand how information seekers evaluate and select the sources...