Comments on: When do we trust an information source?

By: InfoInteg

InfoInteg — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:49:13 +0000

How do we decide in our daily information research whether it is trusted or untrusted? http://bit.ly/cddyGM #infointeg #verification

By: Catherine Fisher

Catherine Fisher — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:48:32 +0000

Interesting post as ever! The ability to assess the value of information found is one aspect of information literacy. Stanford university have undertaken a lot of work about how credibility is established in virtual environments http://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/index.html
Here at IDS we are beginning to do more work on information literacy or information capabilities. We are interested in strengthening people’s ability to search for and assess the value of information and have been doing some work here at IDS and in collaboration with INASP. However we are also interested in another aspect of information capabilty that precedes either of these two skills…. the concept that information from other people is worth looking for when faced with a problem. is it possible to change information behaviours so that people are more likely to look for info? This was discussed at the KM4Dev workshop last year in a short discussion Strategies for Changing Cutures of Information Use – notes here http://wiki.km4dev.org/wiki/index.php/Strategies_for_Changing_Culture_of_Information_Use

By: bengtfeil

bengtfeil — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:23:38 +0000

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By: Pablarribas Radar

Pablarribas Radar — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:53:50 +0000

dlcsubs When do we trust an information source?: Information research is performed in many different ways througho… http://bit.ly/4nL4u0

By: Ken Gillgren

Ken Gillgren — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:42:44 +0000

Too long ago to own up too–yes, measured in decades–I took a high school class on mass media, and was shocked, shocked to learn that something was not necessarily true simply because it appeared in the New York Times, or Times Magazine, or on the nightly news. And more recently, I heard a university media professor calling out for an “authoritative” structure for verifying online identities. It made me remember a laugh a little about the appearance of a Twitter account for the Dalai Lama some time ago. The hoax came out within about 48 hours, after maybe10,000 folks (well, including me) had chosen to “follow” the profile.
Given my progressive inclinations and general sympathies for the ACLU, there are substantial, even life-and-death reasons for someone to conceal their identity, so I don’t look for any “objective” verification source.
Everything on your list is right and useful–yet at the end of the day, at the point where action is required, we have to, as we have always had to, move forward with the best possible decision we can make, in the midst of reasonable–even unreasonable–skepticism. That said, for the most part, I’ve experienced more reasonable and actionable skepticism online than what I historically remember from earlier news and information sources (outside, perhaps, of peer-reviewed studies–which nevertheless also come under criticism now and then).

By: Daniel Dietrich

Daniel Dietrich — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:56:45 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:56:45 +0000