'If your mother says she loves you, check it out': citizens' approaches to evaluating the credibility of information provided online by political actors in Scotland.

Baxter, Graeme; Marcella, Rita

Abstract

This paper provided an overview of developments in online information credibility evaluation over the previous 25 years, relating these to the results of two studies conducted by the authors in 2017: 1) an online survey of the general public (n = 538); and 2) a series of 23 electronically-assisted interviews with citizens in North-East Scotland. It also presented the authors’ emerging Fact Interrogation Model.

Citation

BAXTER, G. and MARCELLA, R. 2019. 'If your mother says she loves you, check it out': citizens' approaches to evaluating the credibility of information provided online by political actors in Scotland. Presented at the 2019 Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association annual conference (MeCCSA 2019), 9-11 January 2019, Stirling, UK.

• Presentation Conference Type: Lecture
• Conference Name: 2019 Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association annual conference (MeCCSA 2019)
• Conference Location: Stirling, UK
• Start Date: Jan 9, 2019
• End Date: Jan 11, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 12, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 11, 2019
• Keywords: Online information; Credibility evaluation; Citizens; North-East Scotland
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/230230