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Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations

Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations
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Author(s): Rick Malleus (Seattle University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 29
Source title: Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6114-1.ch015

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Abstract

This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing the credibility of online news sites, allowing diaspora populations to evaluate the credibility of online news about their home countries. A definition of credibility is established as a theoretical framework for analysis, and a framework of seven elements is developed based on the following elements: accuracy, authority, believability, quality of message construction, peer review, comparison, and corroboration. Later, those elements are applied to a variety of online news sources available to the Zimbabwean diaspora that serves as a case study for explaining the framework. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the framework in relation to some contextual circumstances of diaspora populations and presents some limitations of the framework as diaspora populations might actually apply the different elements.

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