Measuring the Concept of Credibility

Gaziano, Cecilie; McGrath, Kristin

doi:10.1177/107769908606300301

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“…As part of the ASNE study, Gaziano and McGrath (1986) developed an overall credibility score through factor analysis. The analysis showed that constructs such as being fair, unbiased, trustworthy, complete, factual and accurate are central dimensions of the concept of credibility.…”

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News Accuracy in Switzerland and Italy

Porlezza¹,

Maier²,

Ruß-Mohl³

2012

Journalism Practice

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Section: Observesmentioning

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News Accuracy in Switzerland and Italy

Porlezza¹,

Maier²,

Ruß-Mohl³

2012

Journalism Practice

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“…Hence, one wonders how meaningful it is to ask people to rate "media" in terms of credibility when each specific mediumwhether television, radio, newsprint or the internet -provides a platform for a multitude of different news providers. Even more sophisticated approaches to assessing perceived credibility of news media utilising a range of different ratings (e.g., accuracy, balance, believability, bias, fairness, factuality, honesty, objectivity, reliability, sensationalism, timely, trustworthiness, etc) still focus on each medium as if it is a homogenous news supplier, which it is not (see Abdulla, Garrison, Salwen, Driscoll, & Casey, 2005;Gaziano & McGrath, 1986;Johnson & Kaye, 1998Sundar, 1999).…”

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Blogs, news and credibility

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the emergence of blogging in the news sphere. If blogs represent a genuinely new breed of news provision, then they should adhere to some of the founding principles of mainstream news and journalism.A key principle in this respect is news credibility.Design/methodology/approach -This paper presents a review of recent literature about news blogging and assesses whether news blogs manifest many of the core attributes of mainstream news and journalism. The review considers the attributes that have previously been identified as defining good quality news and competent journalism and then applies some of these principles to "news" blogging.Findings -There is no doubt that blogs have emerged as news sources of increasing significance and there have been occasions when they can be influential in setting news agendas. The essential qualities of credibility and capturing public trust in the news sphere, however, then depends upon the established reputation of known news "brands". Although some blogs have emerged as reliable information sources in some specialist areas, they have yet generally to assume the key characteristics of mainstream news that drive public trust.Originality/value -This paper provides an up-to-date review of a topic that is rapidly developing and attempts to set out some foundations on which further analysis of news bogging can be constructed.

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“…Gaziano and McGrath have done some researches on the concept of creditability metric [68]; Alberts [69] and RAND Corporation [70] have also studied the metric definition and estimation method of information correctness and creditability according to the requirements of military application. Then Niven investigates the creditability of information in media and news [71].…”

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Objective information theory: A Sextuple model and 9 kinds of metrics

Shen

et al. 2014

2014 Science and Information Conference

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In the contemporary era, the importance of information is undisputed, but there has never been a common understanding of information, nor a unanimous conclusion to the researches on information metrics. Based on the previous studies, this paper analyzes the important achievements in the researches of the properties and metrics of information as well as their main insufficiencies, and discusses the essence and connotation, the mathematical expressions and other basic problems related to information. On the basis of the understanding of the objectivity of information, it proposes the definitions and a Sextuple model of objective information; discusses the basic properties of information, and brings forward the definitions and mathematical expressions of nine kinds of metrics of information, i.e., extensity, detailedness, sustainability, richness, containability, delay, distribution, validity and matchability. Through these, this paper establishes a basic theory frame of Objective Information Theory to support the analysis and research on information and information system systematically and comprehensively.

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Measuring the Concept of Credibility

Cited by 524 publications

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News Accuracy in Switzerland and Italy

News Accuracy in Switzerland and Italy

Blogs, news and credibility

Objective information theory: A Sextuple model and 9 kinds of metrics

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