Purpose – This paper seeks to understand how users determine credibility in the internet environment from a conceptual level and the implications of these new methods of credibility determination on internet tools (primarily software) and services. Design/methodology/approach – The author first examines the underlying reasons for increased dependence on the internet for information, using elect...

When information practices are understood to be shaped by social context, privilege and marginalization alternately impact not only access to—but also use of— information resources. In the context of information, privilege, and community, politics of marginalization drive stigmatized groups to develop collective norms for locating, sharing, and hiding information. In this paper, we investigate ...

This paper presents the survey results for financial literacy among Cypriot adults and reports their aptitude behaviour. Additionally, it investigates first time implications of on respondents’ usage digital services, particularly internet banking (i-banking). The focus is Cyprus, a country that experienced an unprecedented crisis in 2013 resulted bail-in enormous subsequent shrinkage sector. c...

In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework o...

Introduction. This paper aims to determine how appropriate information literacy instruction is for preparing students for these unmediated searches using commercial search engines and the Web. Method. A survey was designed using the 2000 Association of College and Research Libraries literacy competency standards for higher education. Survey questions examined how subjects perceived the source e...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate patients' preferences for message features and assess their relationships with health literacy, monitor-blunter coping style, and other patient-dependent characteristics. METHODS Patients with coronary heart disease completed an internet-based survey, which assessed health literacy and monitor-blunter coping style, as well as various other patient characteristics such as...

This article explores the importance of dialogue, storytelling and collaboration in children’s learning, followed by examples from message boards, webblogs, and instant messaging software (IM) that support learning through storytelling. Children’s verbal and iconic literacy, as well as digital fluency is investigated along with peer collaboration and empowering children’s voices through Interne...

Ofcom The media literacy of children and young people Preface Ofcom is the independent regulator for the UK communications industry. As part of Ofcom's work to promote media literacy we plan to undertake or support a range of research activities to monitor people's skills, knowledge and understanding of communications technologies and the content they watch and listen to either through broadcas...