You might also like

More about Web Content Credibility

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 324 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This book introduces readers to Web content credibility evaluation and evaluation support. It highlights empirical research and establishes a solid foundation for future research by presenting methods of supporting credibility evaluation of online content, together with publicly available datasets for reproducible experimentation, such as the Web Content Credibility Corpus. The book is divided into six chapters. After a general introduction in Chapter 1, including a brief survey of credibility evaluation in the social sciences, Chapter 2 presents definitions of credibility and related concepts of truth and trust. Next, Chapter 3 details methods, algorithms and user interfaces for systems supporting Web content credibility evaluation. In turn, Chapter 4 takes a closer look at the credibility of social media, exemplified in sections on Twitter, Q&A systems, and Wikipedia. In closing, Chapter 5 presents mathematical and simulation models of credibility evaluation, before a final round-up of the book is provided in Chapter 6. Overall, the book reviews and synthesizes the current state of the art in Web content credibility evaluation support. It provides researchers in academia and industry with both an incentive and a basis for future research and development of Web content credibility evaluation support services.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Media studies

• Full title: Web Content Credibility
• Author: Adam Wierzbicki
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 221
• EAN: 9783319777931
• ISBN: 3319777939
• ID: 18973413
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 524 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. July 2018

Trending among others

---

---

---