JOUR479M - Understanding Social Media Use in Journalism

TED blog entry by Kate Torgovnick May. Includes link to a 13-minute TED Talk by Markham Nolan, November 2012 on analyzing credibility of sources on social media.

Christer Clerwall's article published in Journalism Practice, 25 February 2014. As highlighted by the Nieman Journalism Lab.

Nora Martin, University of Technology, Sydney NSW, Australia. Presented at Special Libraries Association conference, June 2014.

Full Cite: Westerman, David, Patric R. Spence, and Brandon Van Der Heide. 2014. "Social Media as Information Source: Recency of Updates and Credibility of Information." Journal Of Computer-Mediated Communication 19, no. 2: 171-183.

Full Cite: Kim, Kyung‐Sun, EunYoung Yoo‐Lee, and Sei‐Ching Joanna Sin. 2011. "Social Media as Information Source: Undergraduates' Use and Evaluation Behavior." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 48, no. 1: 1-3.

Thomson, Robert, Naoya Ito, Hinako Suda, Fangyu Lin, Yafei Liu, Ryo Hayasaka, Ryuzo Isochi, and Zian Wang. 2012. "Trusting Tweets: The Fukushima Disaster and Information Source Credibility on Twitter." In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 2012.
Includes a table for "Credibility Assessment" (p. 3).

Full Cite: Morris, Meredith Ringel, Scott Counts, Asta Roseway, Aaron Hoff, and Julia Schwarz. 2012. "Tweeting is Believing?: Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions." In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 441-450. ACM.

Full Cite: Sikdar, Sujoy, Byungkyu Kang, John ODonovan, Tobias Hollerer, and Sibel Adah. 2013. "Understanding Information Credibility on Twitter." In Social Computing (SocialCom), 2013 International Conference on, pp. 19-24.

Research on social networking from Pew Research.

September 2014 report by Pew Research focusing upon five questions about journalism and social media.

Published research papers from staff at Google on a variety of technology-related topics.

Research and resources from the Social Network Analysis Group at Stanford University.

From the GSA's Technology Transformation Services.

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