Student Papers by Hakan Terzi
The rise of the internet has led it to become the biggest information sharing platform in the wor... more The rise of the internet has led it to become the biggest information sharing platform in the world today. Its ease of access and users’ ability to upload anything they see fit means that it is a benefit as well as a disadvantage. It has resulted in the amount of quality information disseminated being reduced through the two concepts of misinformation and disinformation. These phenomena may have detrimental effects on society and compromise the credibility/trustworthiness of a vast number of online information sources. It is therefore important for internet users to evaluate sources that may influence them or their knowledge of the world in any way.
This paper aims to provide internet users with a framework/taxonomy that may be used in an effort to access quality information. It achieves this through the provision of a scoring system that evaluates each source based on a number of certain criteria. This provides the evaluator with a total score which may be placed in one of the three categories of information, misinformation or disinformation. These categories indicate the possible nature of the source and whether they should be trusted.
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Student Papers by Hakan Terzi
This paper aims to provide internet users with a framework/taxonomy that may be used in an effort to access quality information. It achieves this through the provision of a scoring system that evaluates each source based on a number of certain criteria. This provides the evaluator with a total score which may be placed in one of the three categories of information, misinformation or disinformation. These categories indicate the possible nature of the source and whether they should be trusted.
This paper aims to provide internet users with a framework/taxonomy that may be used in an effort to access quality information. It achieves this through the provision of a scoring system that evaluates each source based on a number of certain criteria. This provides the evaluator with a total score which may be placed in one of the three categories of information, misinformation or disinformation. These categories indicate the possible nature of the source and whether they should be trusted.