Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication

Moe Folk (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Shawn Apostel (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)

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Digital technology plays a vital role in today's need for instant information access. The simplicity of acquiring and publishing online information presents new challenges in establishing and evaluating online credibility.

Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication highlights important approaches to evaluating the credibility of digital sources and techniques used for various digital fields. This book brings together research in computer mediated communication along with the affects digital culture and online credibility.

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On Pixels, Perceptions, and Personae: Toward a Model of Online Ethos (pages 1-23)

Todd S. Frobish (Fayetteville State University, USA)

This chapter works toward a four-part model of online ethos connecting classical rhetorical theory to the new age of computer-mediated technology with particular att... Sample PDF | More details...

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Online Trust: A Moving Target (pages 24-36)

Natasha Dwyer (Victoria University, Australia)

The design of trust in digital environments shapes how users relate. By reducing complexity, trust expedites transactions, and thus, some developers of online spaces... Sample PDF | More details...

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Online Credibility and Information Labor: Infrastructure Reverberating through Ethos (pages 37-55)

Nathan Johnson (Purdue University, USA)

This chapter examines how information infrastructure influences ethos in information labor. The primary text is discourse about ACID3, a web page created by members... Sample PDF | More details...

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Establishing Ethos on Proprietary and Open Source Software Websites (pages 56-76)

Kevin Brock (North Carolina State University, USA)

The increasing prominence and variety of open source software (OSS) threaten to upset conventional approaches to software development and marketing. While a tremendo... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Ethos of Online Publishing: Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Future for Digital Scholarship (pages 78-94)

Joe Erickson (Angelo State University, USA), Kristine Blair (Bowling Green State University, USA)

This chapter argues that online academic journals are not only a legitimate venue and sustainable source of disciplinary inquiry, but an important professional devel... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Query is Just the Beginning: Exploring Search-Related Decision-Making of Young Adults (pages 95-113)

Veronica Maidel (Syracuse University, USA), Dmitry Epstein (Cornell University, USA)

Web search has become an integral part of everyday online activity. Existing research on search behavior offers an extensive and detailed account of what searchers d... Sample PDF | More details...

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Ethos [edit]: Procedural Rhetoric and the Wikipedia Project (pages 114-130)

Ryan McGrady (North Carolina State University, USA)

This chapter examines the credibility of Wikipedia from a rhetorical point of view, using ethos, one of Aristotle’s original modes of persuasion, to assess the commu... Sample PDF | More details...

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Credibility in Web Search Engines (pages 131-146)

Dirk Lewandowski (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Web search engines apply a variety of ranking signals to achieve user satisfaction, i.e., results pages that provide the best-possible results for the user. While th... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Special Case of Youth and Digital Information Credibility (pages 148-168)

Miriam J. Metzger (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Andrew J. Flanagin (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Ryan Medders (California Lutheran University, USA), Rebekah Pure (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Alex Markov (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Ethan Hartsell (University of California Santa Barbara,USA)

The vast amount of information available online makes the origin of information, its quality, and its veracity less clear than ever before, shifting the burden on in... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Credibility of Sources 2.0 in Journalism: Case Study in Portugal (pages 169-185)

Paulo Serra (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal), João Canavilhas (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)

This chapter addresses the use and credibility of news sources 2.0 in journalism. Starting with traditionally established views about the credibility of news sources... Sample PDF | More details...

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Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations (pages 186-214)

Rick Malleus (Seattle University, USA)

This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing the credibility of online news sites, allowing diaspora populations to evaluate the credibility of online news about... Sample PDF | More details...

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Digital Parrhesia as a Counterweight to Astroturfing (pages 215-227)

Nicholas Gilewicz (University of Pennsylvania, USA), François Allard-Huver (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)

Astroturfing—fake grassroots communications about an issue of public interest—is further problematized in digital space. Because digitally mediated communication eas... Sample PDF | More details...

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Establishing Credibility in the Information Jungle: Blogs, Microblogs, and the CRAAP Test (pages 229-251)

Dawn Emsellem Wichowski (Salve Regina University, USA), Laura E. Kohl (Bryant University, USA)

In this chapter, the authors locate blogs and microblogs such as Facebook and Twitter in the information landscape. They explore their diverse habitats and features,... Sample PDF | More details...

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Building a Professional Ethos on LinkedIn (pages 252-268)

Christy Oslund (Michigan Technological University, USA)

In the face of increasing use of digitally mediated contexts, teachers and students on all levels are expected to be familiar with creating content appropriate for t... Sample PDF | More details...

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Online Identity Formation and Digital Ethos Building in the Chinese Blogosphere (pages 269-284)

Zixue Tai (University of Kentucky, USA), Yonghua Zhang (Shanghai University, China)

Exponential growth in the past decade has turned the Chinese blogosphere into the largest blogging space in the world. Through studying some of the most popular blog... Sample PDF | More details...

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Theory and Application: Using Social Networking to Build Online Credibility (pages 285-301)

Misty L. Knight (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA), Richard A. Knight (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA), Abigail Goben (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Aaron W. Dobbs (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Scholars are increasingly engaging with their peers in synchronous and asynchronous online forums. In order to adapt to this current trend, librarians and faculty mu... Sample PDF | More details...

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Ethical Challenges for User-Generated Content Publishing: Comparing Public Service Media and Commercial Media (pages 302-315)

Ceren Sözeri (Galatasaray University, Turkey)

Mainstream online media is gradually encouraging user contributions to boost brand loyalty and to attract new users; however, former “passive” audience members who b... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Cyber-Propelled Egyptian Revolution and the De/Construction of Ethos (pages 316-330)

Samaa Gamie (Lincoln University, USA)

This chapter examines two key Egyptian Facebook pages that became the voice and face of the youth movement that ignited the Egyptian revolution. The “Kolena Khaled S... Sample PDF | More details...

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“I Rolled the Dice with Trade Chat and This is What I Got”: Demonstrating Context-Dependent Credibility in Virtual Worlds (pages 332-352)

Wendi Sierra (North Carolina State University, USA), Doug Eyman (George Mason University, USA)

In this chapter, the authors extend Warnick’s (2007) appropriation of Toulmin’s (1958) “field-dependency” as applied through an ecological lens to examine credibilit... Sample PDF | More details...

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Documentary at Play (pages 353-367)

Inge Ejbye Sørensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Anne Mette Thorhauge (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Docu-games designate a versatile group of games that have in common an attempt to depict and reflect on aspects of reality such as military conflicts, historical per... Sample PDF | More details...

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Press C? to Play the Ocarina: Rhetoric and Game Music (pages 368-390)

Dan W. Lawrence (Michigan Technological University, USA)

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the intersection where digital media studies meet rhetoric and rhetoric is re-introduced to musicology. In the recent a... Sample PDF | More details...

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This collection of scholarly writings is intended as a resource for anyone conducting online research. More specifically, it offers online researchers ways to evaluate the credibility of the broad variety of online sources of information that are rapidly growing in number and focus. For that reason, it will appeal to a diverse audience: academics and students, journalists, Web designers, information literacy specialists and more. General topics include design and arrangement, perceptions of online information, news and primary research, user-generated content, and games. Editors are Folk (multimodal composition and digital rhetoric), Kutztown U. of Pennsylvania), and Apostel (communication coordinator, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, Eastern Kentucky U.).

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Evaluating Credibility
Freeware Ratings

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Author(s)/Editor(s) Biography

Moe Folk is an Assistant Professor of Multimodal Composition and Digital Rhetoric at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in the English Department. His research centers on issues of ethos in digital realms, particularly concerning the relationship that multimodal style has with defining contemporary notions of ethos, and teaching writing with new composing technologies and multiple modes. His previous publications include an article about visual representation in Mediascape and co-authored pieces with Shawn Apostel that appeared in Computers and Composition Online and the Handbook of Research on Computer-Mediated Composition by IGI Global. His recent work has appeared in Kairos PraxisWiki and the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative; book chapters on using Google Maps to teach writing, assessing the affordances of multimodal style, and using visual rhetoric to produce and teach graphic novels are forthcoming. His creative work has appeared in Pank and New Letters.

Shawn Apostel is the Communication Coordinator for the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern Kentucky University where he collaborates with communication faculty, Noel Studio research and writing coordinators, technology associates, and student consultants to identify needs and develop instructional/information seminars focusing on visual, oral, and digital communication. A graphic designer by trade, Dr. Apostel has a MA in Professional Communication from Clemson University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. His research interests include visual communication, creativity, digital ethos, e-waste reduction, and instructional use of cloud-based composition programs. His work is published by IGI Global, CCDigital Press, Lexington Books, New Forums Press, and Computers and Composition Online. In spring of 2013 his co-authored book Teaching Creative Thinking: Pedagogical Approaches will be published by New Forums Press.

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