Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users

Johnson, Thomas J.; Kaye, Barbara K.

doi:10.1177/107769900408100310

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“…Blogs, on the other hand, which represent a popular source of social media news information, are often criticized for a lack of the journalistic ethics and standards of more traditional news sources (Johnson & Kaye, 2004). Thus, like health information, online social information about news may be perceived to be less credible than social information about products, which may benefit from effects of aggregation and posts from consumers who are motivated to truthfully share their experience (Resnick, Zeckhauser, Friedman, & Kuwabara, 2000).…”

Section: Social Media Self-efficacy and Information Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media self-efficacy and information evaluation online

Hocevar

Flanagin

Metzger

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

159

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a b s t r a c tThis study introduces the concept of social media self-efficacy, or a person's perceived ability to reach desired outcomes in the social media environment, and examines the relationship between social media self-efficacy and how people evaluate information found online. Results of a survey of a representative sample of adult Internet users in the United States (N = 3568) indicate that users with higher social media self-efficacy find information shared via social media to be more trustworthy than do those lower in social media self-efficacy. These self-efficacious social media users also rely more both on the opinions of others and on social media specifically when evaluating or verifying the information they find online, suggesting that they may be more prone to seek out and be influenced by input from others. Practical and theoretical implications of these findings are explored.

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Section: Social Media Self-efficacy and Information Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media self-efficacy and information evaluation online

Hocevar

Flanagin

Metzger

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

159

102

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“…This begs the question why? The answer probably lies in the need to consume tourism products before an evaluation can take place (Dellaert 2000; Rabanser and Ricci 2005;Senecal and Nantal 2004).So online reviews and word of mouth recommendations are a growing and important information source because of the perceived independence of the message source (Gitleson and Kerstetter 1994;Crotts 1999;Dellarocas 2003;Johnson and Kayne 2003;HennigThurau et al 2004;Pan et al 2007;Litvin et al 2007). A recent UK survey found consumers trusted more sites with reviews than professional guides and travel agencies (eMarketer 2007).…”

Section: Internet Applications For Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

User generated content: the use of blogs for tourism organisations and tourism consumers

2008

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As the World Wide Web has developed considerable bargaining power has been transferred from suppliers to consumers; there is a real need to improve market intelligence and market research for private and public tourism organisations and facilitate timely consumer decision making. This article explores the development of user generated content and specifically the use of web logs or blogs. Tourism organisations cannot afford to ignore the development of user generated content, peer-to-peer web applications and virtual communities. A recent survey found that consumers trusted more websites with reviews than professional guides and travel agencies and far from being an irrelevance, blogs are often perceived to be more credible and trustworthy than traditional marketing communications. But there is a problem: given the sheer number of possibly relevant travel blogs there is a need to locate, extract and interpret blog content and this has proven so far to be time consuming, exhausting and costly, thus negating the relative value of the information obtained. A way forward may be the use of artificial intelligence and ''opinion mining'' or a blog visualisation system.

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“…In this sense, several researches showed that citizens perceive social media as a credible source of information, free from the organizational, marketing and economic imperatives faced by traditional journalism (Banning & Sweetser, 2007;Johnson & Kaye, 2004;Kiousis, 2001). …”

Section: Social Media Use and Gatekeeper Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%