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Credibility

About: Credibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13730 publications have been published within this topic receiving 331944 citations. The topic is also known as: believability & plausibility.


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02 Apr 2013
TL;DR: The CredRank algorithm is proposed, which analyzes social media users' online behavior to measure their credibility and study the situations in which the user cannot assess the credibility of the content or the user (source of the information) based on the user's profile.
Abstract: People increasingly use social media to get first-hand news and information. During disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and the tsunami in Japan people used social media to report injuries as well as send out their requests. During social movements such as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the Arab Spring, people extensively used social media to organize their events and spread the news. As more people rely on social media for political, social, and business events, it is more susceptible to become a place for evildoers to use it to spread misinformation and rumors. Therefore, users have the challenge to discern which piece of information is credible or not. They also need to find ways to assess the credibility of information. This problem becomes more important when the source of the information is not known to the consumer. In this paper we propose a method to measure user credibility in social media. We study the situations in which we cannot assess the credibility of the content or the credibility of the user (source of the information) based on the user's profile. We propose the CredRank algorithm to measure user credibility in social media. The algorithm analyzes social media users' online behavior to measure their credibility.

131 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
Matthew Dull1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the logic of credible commitment drawn from the study of institutional political economy, and model leadership commitment as a factor shaping organizational responses to reform, concluding that the impact of leadership commitment on perceived credibility results-based reform and reported use of performance measures.
Abstract: Few problems common in management reform are more prominent or more vaguely conceived than is leadership. Advocates and observers broadly agree that leadership is a critical factor where reform takes hold. Yet, in scholarship assessing the results-model management reforms proliferating in public organizations during the last decade and a half, leadership remains an elusive concept, rarely subject to empirical scrutiny. Applying the logic of credible commitment drawn from the study of institutional political economy, this article models leadership commitment as a factor shaping organizational responses to reform. Quantitative analysis of data drawn from two Government Accountability Office surveys of agency managers administered during the implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act provides evidence regarding the impact of leadership commitment on perceived credibility results-based reform and reported use of performance measures. The article concludes with a brief discussion of reputation-based credibility and the skepticism many government managers hold toward reform.

131 citations

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TL;DR: The results revealed that the influences of self-perceptions of opinion leadership, perceived tie strength in online networks and perceived preference of online news had significant effects on users’ news sharing intention in social media, however, self- Perceived news credibility, homophily, and perceived news credibility were not significant.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw from the diffusion of innovations theory to explore multi-levels of influences (i.e. individuals, networks, news attributes) on news sharing in social media. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was designed and administered to 309 respondents. Structural equation modelling analysis was conducted to examine the three levels of influential factors. These included self-perceptions of opinion leadership and seeking at the individual level, perceived tie strength and homophily at the network level, and finally, perceived news credibility and news preference at the news attribute level. Findings – The results revealed that the influences of self-perceptions of opinion leadership, perceived tie strength in online networks and perceived preference of online news had significant effects on users’ news sharing intention in social media. However, self-perceptions of opinion seeking, homophily, and perceived news credibility were not significant. Originality/value – T...

131 citations

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TL;DR: The authors defend a contextualist approach to epistemic injustice according to which instances of such injustice should be looked at as temporally extended phenomena having developmental and historical trajectories and socially extended phenomena (being rooted in patterns of social relations) within this contextualist framework, credibility excesses appear as a form of undeserved epistemic privilege.
Abstract: This paper defends a contextualist approach to epistemic injustice according to which instances of such injustice should be looked at as temporally extended phenomena (having developmental and historical trajectories) and socially extended phenomena (being rooted in patterns of social relations) Within this contextualist framework, credibility excesses appear as a form of undeserved epistemic privilege that is crucially relevant for matters of testimonial justice While drawing on Miranda Fricker's proportional view of epistemic justice, I take issue with its lack of attention to the role that credibility excesses play in testimonial injustices I depart from Fricker's view of the relation between credibility excesses and credibility deficits, and I offer an alternative account of the contributions that undeserved epistemic privileges make to epistemic injustices Then, through the detailed analysis of To kill a mockingbird, I elucidate the crucial role played by the social imaginary in creating and sust

131 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interviewed internal medicine residents to characterize their perceptions of effective feedback and explored aspects of the person sending the feedback which m... and the person who sent the feedback.
Abstract: We interviewed internal medicine residents to characterize their perceptions of effective feedback. These semi-structured interviews also explored aspects of the person sending the feedback which m...

131 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,881
20223,791
2021775
2020830
2019822
2018735