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Understanding and Evaluating Source Expertise in an Evolving Media Environment
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Author(s): Rebekah A. Pure (University of California, USA), Alexander R. Markov (University of California, USA), J. Michael Mangus (University of California, USA), Miriam J. Metzger (University of California, USA), Andrew J. Flanagin (University of California, USA)and Ethan H. Hartsell (University of California, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 15
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Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tatjana Takševa (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2178-7.ch003
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Abstract
Recent technological changes have created a radically different information environment from the one that existed even a few decades ago. Rather than coming from a small number of sources, each with a substantial investment in the information production and delivery processes, information is increasingly provided by a wide range of sources, many of which can readily provide and deliver information to large audiences worldwide. One consequence of this evolution in information production is an almost incomprehensibly vast information repository in the form of the Web and other online resources. A variety of social media have extended this information and source fecundity even further by connecting individuals to one another and by providing significant opportunities to share myriad types of information generated by users themselves. This shift in information dissemination challenges longstanding models of the provision of credible information by suggesting circumstances under which sources that are not understood as “experts” in the traditional sense are in fact in the best position to provide the most credible information.
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