Search results for "trust"

Predictors of credibility of online media in the spanish polarized media system

2019

Credibility of online news media is facing important challenges: the levelling effect of the digital environment, the changing habits of consumption, polarization of discourses… This scenario makes it relevant to address what features of news brands and news content shape the credibility of contemporary journalism. This article tests a set of items, including journalistic standards, reputation and citizen participation, in order to build predictors involved in credibility judgments. The authors carried on a quantitative survey (n=416), representative of the Spanish online population. Results identified currency of information, inclusion of analysis and context, citation of sources and inclu…

Il diritto antitrust nella Repubblica indiana

Keep Calm in Heated Debates: How People Perceive Different Styles of Discourse in a Scientific Debate

2021

Scientific debates are, in an epistemological sense, argumentative approaches aimed at coming to the most appropriate conclusion. However, as these debates sometimes involve interpersonal rather than content-driven attacks (e.g., an argument between scientific experts might involve personal dislike), the following question arises: How do such communication behaviors affect people’s perception of the argument? In an empirical study, we presented prospective teachers (N = 222) with a newspaper article about two scientific experts controversially discussing the pros and cons of a fictional vocabulary training program. Using a 1 × 2 between-subject design, the article contained either a neutral…

Antecedents of and their effect on trust in online word-of-mouth : case Finnish discussion forums

2011

The growing importance of digital marketing communications and digital marketing channels has raised challenges in understanding this new environment and consumers’ action within it. Objective of this study was to explore the dynamics of online word-of-mouth and consumers’ trust formation towards it. Literature review offers a comprehensive view to trust in its contradictory nature, to the unique characteristics of online word-of-mouth. Research was explanatory and causal, trying to find relationships between variables derived from previous studies and theory. Quantitative method was employed to measure following latent variables: Trustworthiness of a community, website quality, accuracy, r…

Social media as the pulse of national security threats : A framework for studying how social media influences young people's safety and security situ…

2019

Social media is becoming more and more of a security threat. Dissatisfaction with the content and quality of the information flow is increasing not only at the nation-state level, but also at the level of people's everyday lives. Social media is one of the key channels for distributing disinformation and it has become a key instrument for influencing political activity in particular. It is difficult to single out individual contributors or culprits when it comes to the dissemination of disinformation due to the rhizomatic nature of the internet and the Western approach to using social media. The same principles such as ease of access to the network, democracy, freedom of speech, and knowled…

Context-sensitive distraction warnings : effects on drivers' visual behavior and acceptance

2016

In this study, we investigated the effects of context-sensitive distraction warnings on drivers' in-car glance behaviors and acceptance. The studied prototype warning application functions on a smart phone. The novelty of the application is its proactive and context-sensitive approach to the adjustment of warning thresholds according to the estimated visual demands of the driving situation ahead. In our study, novice and experienced drivers conducted in-car tasks with a smart phone on a test track with and without the warnings. The application gave a warning if the driver's gaze was recognized to remain on the smart phone over a situation-specific threshold time, or if the driver was approa…

Wpływ rozporządzenia eIDAS i nowej definicji dokumentu na praktyczne aspekty elektronicznego poświadczenia kopii dokumentu w znaczeniu znowelizowaneg…

2016

Article addresses the impact of elDAS regulation and the new definition of a document on practical aspects of authentication electronic copies of the document in regard to amended article 97 of Polish Notary Act. Author summarizes functions of document and comparizes definition between document in Polish Civil Code as well as electronic document in elDAS Regulation. The merits of the thesis is the analysis of electronic document authentication. Author expresses important issues in the field of electronic document authentication describing trusted services which may be of use in authentication.

Assessment of Organizational Trust: Preliminary Data for Romanian Adaptation of the Organizational Trust Inventory Short Form

2013

Abstract In the last years, trust became an important variable in regard to the well-being of organizations. In Romania, it was included in studies as a variable but there are few instruments that measure organizational trust. Therefore I identify a necessity for developing instruments useful in assessing and promoting any organizational adjustments. This paper presents the preliminary data obtained in the process of adaptation of OTI for the Romanian population. In doing so, we followed the guidelines of ITC. Using a sample of 108 employees the psychometric results show that OTI-RO has a high level of internal consistency reliability (a = 0.94) and it can be used exclusive for equivalent p…

Public Organizations and Local Rural Development : an Empirical Analysis

2005

This paper describes an empirical approach designed and adopted to analyze and qualify the role of some public agencies devoted to rural development. These public organizations operate as critical agents in managing local public goods within a complex relation system functioning on a rural area. On the bases of the experiences and observations made on a case study in Central Italy, it emerges an analytical framework deriving from the correlation of an objective and subjective perspectives in the evaluation of these organizations’ performances. From these correlations, it derives a model to empirically classify these agencies evaluating also their potentials in creating integration, condensa…

Luottamussertifikaattien vaikutukset verkkokaupassa

2015

Verkkokaupankäynnin yleistymisestä huolimatta suuri osa ihmisistä ei tee kauppaa verkon välityksellä ja yksi suurimmista syistä tähän on luottamuksen puute. Yrityksen ja kuluttajan välisessä B2C-kaupassa verkkokaupat pyrkivät lisäämään kuluttajan luottamusta verkkokauppaa kohtaan eri keinoin, joista yksi on kolmannen osapuolen luottamussertifikaattien hankkiminen ja näyttäminen verkkosivulla. Luottamussertifikaatteja on tutkittu verkkokaupan kontekstissa melko runsaasti viimeisen noin kahdenkymmenen vuoden aikana. Tutkimustulokset näistä tutkimuksista ovat kuitenkin olleet vaihtelevia. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten kolmannen osapuolen tarjoamat, verkkokaupassa näkyvät lu…