This study examines how bloggers establish and enhance the credibility of their blogs through a series of blogging practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with 22 independent bloggers who blog on a range of topics, we present audience-aware credibility as a theoretical construct. Audience-aware credibility is defined as how bloggers signal their credibility based on who they think their a...

The proliferation of user-generated content (UGC) is one of the distinguishing characteristics of Web 2.0. Internet users contribute content online through platforms such as blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, and sites that allow user feedback. Yet little is known of the credibility practices of these content contributors. Through phone interviews conducted with 29 online content contributors, ...

This article considers recent changes to legal provisions governing harassment at work, in particular sexual harassment, in the UK, in the light of EU Directive 2002/73/EC, and the remedies available in the courts and employment tribunals. This article then provides a statistical profi le of a total of 21,335 sex discrimination cases brought to nine employment tribunals in the UK between 2003 a...

Credibility coefficients reflect similarity of objects in respect to other ones in information systems. For decision tables we can use credibility coefficients based on decision rules. Knowledge discovery methods can extract rules from an information system. The knowledge represented by the rules may be not exact due to improper data. Calculation of credibility coefficients is based on an assum...

Web search engines apply a variety of ranking signals to achieve user satisfaction, i.e., results pages that provide the best-possible results to the user. While these ranking signals implicitly consider credibility (e.g., by measuring popularity), explicit measures of credibility are not applied. In this chapter, credibility in Web search engines is discussed in a broad context: credibility as...

As a natural extension of the fuzzy variable, bifuzzy variable is defined as mapping from credibility space to collection variables, which an appropriate tool model two-fold phenomena. In order enrich its theoretical foundation, this paper explores some important measures for regular most commonly used type variables. Firstly, we introduce variables’ mean chance measure and properties, includin...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology for measuring the relative efficiencies of a set of decision making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs. In the conventional DEA, all the data assume the form of specific numerical values. However, the observed values of the input and output data in real-life problems are sometimes imprecise or vague. Previous method...

several studies and researches have been conducted in the world since 1950 to assess and evaluate the media news credibility, and in this regard the researches tried to investigate the media news from different angles. the finding of any such researches and studies quite indicate that the credibility is a multidimensional construct and thus, a reliable and successful survey in this connection i...