• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.35-52
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• 2014

This study aims to examine how the relationship with an information source affects people to perceive credibility of online information. We developed a conceptual framework that explained how people perceived information credibility when they were familiar with the information source and/or when the information source seemed credible. We then compared the models in two different contexts, namely, online review and social media sites, to examine differences. We surveyed 136 online social media users with their online shopping experiences. Among our eight hypotheses, three (H6: the personality similarity between an information provider and an information seeker enhances the perceived credibility of the former; H7: the credibility of an information provider produces a much stronger mediating effect in review sites than in social media sites; H8: the familiarity of an information seeker with an information provider produces a stronger mediating effect in social media sites than in review sites) are fully supported and four (H1: the credibility of an information provider has a positive influence on the perceived credibility of the online information; H2: the familiarity of an information seeker with an information provider has a positive influence on the perceived credibility of the online information; H3: the goal similarity between an information provider and an information seeker enhances the perceived familiarity of the latter with the former; H5: the personality similarity between an information provider and an information seeker enhances the perceived familiarity of the latter with the former) are partially supported. The hypothesis of H4: the goal similarity between an information provider and an information seeker enhances the perceived credibility of the former is rejected. The result confirms that credibility of information is strongly mediated by credibility of information source than familiarity with information source in online review sites and vice versa in social media sites.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.155-178
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• 2010

Assessment of information credibility is a ubiquitous human activity given that people constantly make decisions and selections based on the value of information in a variety of information seeking and use contexts. Today, people are increasingly engaging in diverse online activities beyond searching for and reading information, including activities such as creating, tagging and rating content, shopping, and listening to and watching multimedia content. The Web 2.0 environment presents new challenges for people because the burden of information evaluation is shifted from professional gatekeepers to individual information consumers. At the same time, however, it also provides unprecedented opportunities for people to use tools and features that help them to make informed credibility judgments by relying on other people's ratings and recommendations. This paper introduces fundamental notions and dimensions of credibility, and contends that credibility assessment can be best understood with respect to human information behavior because it encompasses both the level of effort people exert as well as the heuristics they employ to evaluate information. The paper reports on a survey study investigating people's credibility judgments with respect to online information, focusing on the constructs, heuristics, and interactions involved in people's credibility assessment processes within the context of their everyday life information activities. Using an online activity diary method, empirical data about people's online activities and their associated credibility assessments were collected at multiple points throughout the day for three days. The results indicate that distinct credibility assessment heuristics are emerging as people engage in diverse online activities involving more user-generated and multimedia content. A heuristic approach suggests that people apply mental shortcuts or rules of thumb in order to minimize the amount of cognitive effort and time required to make credibility judgments. The paper discusses why a heuristic approach is key to reaching a more comprehensive understanding of people's credibility assessments within the information-abundant online environment.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.6-17
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine to what extent the context in which people interact with online information affects people's credibility perceptions. In this study, credibility assessment is defined as perceptions of credibility relying on individuals' expertise and knowledge. Context has been characterized with respect to three aspects: Context as user goals and intentions, context as topicality of information, and context as information activities. The data were collected from two empirical studies. Study 1 was a diary study in which 333 residents in Michigan, U.S.A. submitted 2,471 diary entries to report their trust perceptions associated with ten different user goals and nine different intentions. Study 2 was a lab-based study in which 64 subjects participated in performing four search tasks in two different information activity conditions - information search or content creation. There are three major findings of this study: (1) Score-based trust perceptions provided limited views of people's credibility perceptions because respondents tended to score trust ratings consistently high across various user goals and intentions; (2) The topicality of information mattered more when study subjects assessed the credibility of user generated content (UGC) than with traditional media content (TMC); (3) Subjects of this study exerted more effort into making credibility judgments when they engaged in searching activities than in content creation. These findings indicate that credibility assessment can or should be seen as a process-oriented notion incorporating various information use contexts beyond simple rating-based evaluation. The theoretical contributions for information scientists and practical implications for web designers are also discussed.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.109-123
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• 2016

The success of a crowd-funding project can be attributed to various reasons, among which, backer's (also known as 'investor', or 'funder') perception of project credibility may be a salient one. The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which perceived project credibility can affect a backer's investment decision. We examine the factors that could influence the building of perceived project credibility by testing the proposed research model using survey data. Analysis results indicate that perceived project credibility has a significantly positive effect on backer's investment intention. Furthermore, information quality and source credibility are two key determinants of perceived project credibility. This study contributes to crowd-funding literature by enriching the list of successful factors for fund-raising with project credibility. The study also has practical implications because it explains why and how a backer's perception of project credibility can be improved.

• 무역학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.99-113
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze the effect of product information quality and source credibility on product arousal in fresh food website. Despite fresh food websites are selling products with various feature, prior studies have focused on consumer behavior for fresh food website characteristics or specific products without considering the feature of the products. Consumers' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors vary depending on the feature of the product. In other words, depending on the category of product, the decision making process that consumers purchase products can be differ. So, we classify products considering the feature of these products to examine the effect of information quality and source credibility on product arousal into experience goods and search goods. We surveyed 288 consumers having experience of purchase in fresh food website and verified the hypothesis through One-way ANOVA by classifying the information quality and the source credibility as high level and low level. As a result, there was a difference in product arousal according to the product information quality level and the source credibility level for each product category exposed to the fresh food website. In experience goods, source credibility have a more important effect on product arousal than product information quality, and in search goods, product information quality have a more important effect on product arousal than source credibility.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2021

This study investigates the impact of heuristic factors on customers' perception of information credibility of influencers on YouTube channels, and the association between customers' perception of information credibility and brand attitude, brand credibility, and purchase intention of cosmetic products in Vietnam. A quantitative approach is employed, with a survey of 270 females who are frequent viewers of beauty content on YouTube channels. The data reliability and validity go through various statistical tests including exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Also, structural equation modeling (SEM) is applied to test the hypotheses. The results reveal that there is a positive association between heuristic factors and the perception of information credibility. This perception of information credibility also influences positively on customers' attitudes toward the brand and brand credibility. Purchase intention is also found to be positively associated with the two latter variables. The study's main findings not only offer advice to practitioners on how to choose the right product endorsers and advertising platforms, but they also offer novel insight from the Vietnamese context that could help to extend the heuristic-systematic model and customers' buy intention behavior.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.303-324
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• 2020

본 연구는 스마트 기기와 컴퓨터 등 디지털 미디어를 능동적으로 이용하는 아동기 후반과 청소년 초기에 낀 세대라고 일컬어지는 트윈들이 다양한 정보를 선별·수용하는 판단을 하는지 알아보기 위한 기초연구로서 이들의 인터넷정보 조사와 이용에 대한 인식, 정보 신뢰성 판단에 대해 살펴보려는 목적으로 수행되었다. 이를 위하여 설문조사법을 이용하여 서울시내 초등학교 2개교 5학년과 6학년 학생들을 대상으로 400부의 설문지를 배포하였고 336부의 유효 설문지를 회수하였다. 코딩된 데이터는 SPSS 25를 이용하여 기술통계, 요인분석, 빈도분석을 하였다. 분석 결과, 트윈들은 스마트 기기와 컴퓨터의 중요성을 인식하며 유튜브, 네이버, 카카오톡, 네이버 지식인의 순서로 많이 이용한다고 응답했으며 인터넷 정보조사가 쉽고 재미있다고 인식하였다. 정보 신뢰성 문항들의 탐색적 요인분석 결과, 인터넷 서비스제공자 신뢰성, 정보원과 정보 신뢰성, 신뢰성 상담으로 개념적 틀이 구분되어 제시되었으며 이 중에서 정보원과 정보 신뢰성 판단을 가장 많이 하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 흥미롭게도 정보 저자 신뢰성에 대한 확인방법 인지, 최신정보의 확인 필요성에서는 응답의 편차가 컸다. 현재 국가교육과정에 정보활용교육이 포함되지 않은 점을 고려하면 이들이 경험법을 통해 터득한 신뢰성 판단 전략 등에 관한 후속 연구가 필요하다. 향후 더 심도있는 트윈들의 정보 신뢰성 판단을 위한 후속 연구와 학교와 도서관 현장의 교육적 실천을 기대한다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.327-338
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate what the characteristics of word-of-mouth on SNS and how these factors credibility for information's source and acceptance of word-of-mouth. We proposed study model was set through overall theoretical investigation. The 179 Valid survey data were gathered from the user who have prior experience in SNS. According to factor analysis, characteristic of word-of-mouth information on SNS were classified into consensus and neutrality. And credibility for information's source and acceptance of word-of-mouth were composed sing dimension. The Hypothesis inspection says that all variables were positively correlated with each other. And consensus and valance have positive influence on credibility for information's source. Also credibility for information's source influence on acceptance of word-of-mouth and valance have positive affect trust for information's source. Several academic and practical implications are yield accordingly. Especially this study intention to provide basis which can be used for all business's effective marketing activity.

• 복식
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2012

The purpose of this research is to study the influence over confidence and Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) effect in the acceptance process of WOM by information characteristics(consensus, vividness, and message neutrality) of individual cosmetic blog, reflecting that it is widely spreading over the public. Online survey for the consumers using such blogs was performed to collect data(N=200), and credibility analysis through Cronbach-${\alpha}$ and Structural Equation Model(SEM) analysis using AMOS 18.0 were performed. The analysis results are as follows; First, vivid information and neutral message increase WOM effect through the improvement of consumers' credibility whereas information consensus doesn't positively influence over credibility. Second, the examination of a moderating effect by type of cosmetics demonstrated that the consumers of basic cosmetics have most confidence in vivid information, and those of color cosmetics do more confidence in neutral message. Therefore, there is a difference in the credibility factor of online WOM depending on the type of cosmetics consumption so that differentiated information provision strategies for cosmetics groups should be established based on it.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.427-438
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• 2021

This study aims to identify variables, which have relationship to the information credibility toward brand trust. Other than that, this study also proposes a system dynamics approach method, where the time to achieve different credible information can be modeled efficiently and by using variable-oriented simulation methods. Data, which are used for testing, are derived from 400 questionnaires. Data for SEM are collected by using questionnaire and are processed using AMOS software to identify the result whether it is proper to determine the proper variables and the indicators, which will be processed in the simulation using Powersim. The result shows that, from six variables proposed, five are significant variables that support the information credibility. The value of information credibility has fluctuated in 10 years. The important aspect in business activity is a business strategy that incorporates marketing activities. Many companies are adopting green marketing practice to achieve a better business performance, so that information credibility factor is needed. Over the past few years, numerous industries in Indonesia have increased awareness toward green movement. Some companies apply the whole process of creating green products, while others only do so partially, but this is a good approach to green business development in Indonesia nonetheless.