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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

Rick Malleus
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781466661141|ISBN10: 1466661143|EISBN13: 9781466661158
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6114-1.ch015
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Malleus, Rick. "Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations." Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 324-352. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6114-1.ch015

APA

Malleus, R. (2014). Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 324-352). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6114-1.ch015

Chicago

Malleus, Rick. "Whose News Can You Trust?: A Framework for Evaluating the Credibility of Online News Sources for Diaspora Populations." In Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 324-352. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/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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