Research Methods for Desklib

Running head: RESEARCH METHODS
Research methods
Name of the student
Name of the university
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Article no. 1
Warner-Søderholm, Bertsch, Bertsch, Lee, Wolfe, Meyer, Engel, Fatilua (2018)
What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
G. Warner-Søderholm, A., Bertsch, E. Sawe, D. Lee, T. Wolfe, J. Meyer, J. Engel and U.N
Fatilua, “Who trusts social media?. 2018”. Computers in Human Behavior, 81, pp.303-315.
How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I have got the article during searching for the social media and it impacts related articles in
the Google scholar.
The search term which has been used by me are social media, human perception, and impact.
Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
This is a peer-reviewed article. I have found this article with page number, volume and
abstract. The structure indicates that, it is a peer-reviewed article and I have got it from
Google scholar.
Does the author(s) work in a university or a government-funded research institute? If so,
which university or research institute? If not, where do they work?
Name of the authors is Gillian Warner-Søderholm, Andy Bertsch and Annika Søderholm. All
of them are the faculty members of The Bl Norwegian Business school. In the year 1969 with
the support of the government.
What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
After analysing the entire article this can be said that the authors are experts in their areas.
The authors have focused on the international culture, communication and behaviour of
human. From the other articles this has been identified that the main focus of the authors is in
these areas.
What was the paper about?
In this article it has been identified that the trust is being considered as the foundation in
every communication process. This has also been identified by the author that trust is being
influenced due to the psychological understanding. According to the author in the current
business scenario, people have become highly connected with the digital media. Availability
of newsfeed and all kind of information have become easier for people to get from the digital
network. As its result, the human psychology and behaviour are getting conned with the
social media. Due to the excessive uses of social media in daily life, people have become
dependent on it. As its result the social media has grain the trust of people. Whatever they see
in social media, have started trusting on it. In this study, the author has identified the different
level of trusting behaviour of people, which are being influenced by the social media. In this
article, it has been identified that the younger and women users highly expect the authenticity
of the information they get from the social media.
Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers
and why?
This article is similar to the articles published by the same author named “Data on social
media use related to age, gender and trust constructs of integrity, competence, concern,
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