What is it about?
Online users' knowledge of the topics and task difficulty influence their credibility evaluations.
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Why is it important?
Our study sheds light on the effect of task and knowledge in affecting users' informaton judgement. In the online enivornment where information is in abundance, it is critical for users to be diagnostic in deciphering quality and accurate information.
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We hope you find this research article insightful. In this era of information overload, it is pertinent to understand how task orientation and cognitive information processing influence our evaluation of information resources.
Dr Helena Lee
University of Newcastle
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This page is a summary of: Understanding the effects of task and topical knowledge in the evaluation of websites as information patch, Journal of Documentation, January 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jd-04-2017-0050.
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