Exploring online news credibility through aesthetics and user-contributed content
This study explores how interactive features on a news website affect a user's perception of credibility and quality. A between-subjects experiment (n=122) was conducted online using four websites with varying levels of user-contributed content to determine if there was an effect. No significant difference in user judgments was found between the four websites. Further analysis showed sub-dimensions within the credibility measure and specifically found significant differences between groups when making judgments regarding accuracy. The study concludes by offering design recommendations to encourage user-contributed content on news websites and suggestions for future work in the field of design-related credibility research and online news websites in general.
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Reed, Michael S.
- Thesis Advisors
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Lampe, Clifford
- Committee Members
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LaRose, Robert
Heeter, Carrie
- Date
- 2011
- Subjects
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Media literacy
Journalism
Internet--Social aspects
Citizen journalism
Online journalism
Evaluation
- Program of Study
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Telecomunication, Information Studies and Media
- Degree Level
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Masters
- Language
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English
- Pages
- 53 pages
- ISBN
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9781124791302
1124791302