Annotated Bibliography on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media

Research Methods Annotated Bibliography
Information
This task will take 1-2 hours of quality study time (no interruptions, phone on silent, focussed
concentration).
Instructions
 In the heading, write the paper’s authors’ last (i.e., family) names and the year in which the
paper was published
o Examples
 Smith, Jones and Green (2003)
 Smith (2001)
 Green and Black (2009)
 Complete every section - do not copy and paste anything, even the authors' credentials and
especially not the abstract.
 Delete this page.
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Research Methods Annotated Bibliography
Author (date)
1. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
Shafer and J. Shafer, "Survey: Social media trusted for info", POLITICO, 2018. [Online].
Available: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/survey-users-trust-social-media-as-news-
source-086321. [Accessed: 20- May- 2018].
2. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I found it from the politico by searching keyword social media.
3. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
No, it is not a peer-reviewed paper. IT is an online article published in Politico.
4. 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?
The author work in Politico. He is a reporter in Politico.
5. What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author is a good reporter and have expertise in it.
6. What was the paper about?
The paper is about the spending time on social media by teenagers. The trust has been growing
over the social media by conducting a survey on it. The paper has been describing the
enthusiasm of human being over the social media. The use of the social media has been
increasing in the market with the implementation of the internet. The young people has been
getting addicted to the social media. Therefore, it has been a prior loop of the companies to
provide proper news over the social media. The trust if the users over the social media has been
higher than other sources of news. Therefore, the use of social media platform has been a great
approach to gain knowledge.
7. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is similar to the article in BBC News,” Only one in four trust social media, says survey”.
8. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
Yes, it is different from an article in Independent news, “Social media companies are losing public
trust as 'traditional' media regains it, report finds”.
9. What are your observations? Do you have any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
The similarities describes about the dependency of the social media in the society. My
observation clarifies that social media has been trusted by most of the people all over the world. It
also provide opportunity for companies to advertise their products and services.
10. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
This paper have helped in providing knowledge about dependency of social media among young
people.
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Research Methods Annotated Bibliography
Author (date)
11. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
Golbeck, "Data We Trust—But What Data?", Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 3,
p. 196, 2018.
12. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I found this paper by searching with keywords related to data.
13. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
Yes. The research content has been properly validated.
14. 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?
Golbeck is a professor at the University of Maryland in College park.
15. What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
She is expert in social networking intelligence lab.
16. What was the paper about?
This paper focuses on the importance of data and information flowing over the social media and
internet. The validity and reliability of the data is an important aspect in the world. Social media
has been a great platform for sharing their views in a well prospered manner. Social media has
been creating a special approach towards the maintenance of various news and articles. The use
of social media in various aspects has been discussed in the paper. This research focusses on
the importance of the social media as the marketing tool for the grey market. The use of the social
media as a marketing tool has been helping in maintaining and connecting with different people all
over the world hire the internet. Customers used to maintain a keen approach to the grey market.
The grey market refers to the black market in order to sell various products at low prices that ha
original market. Social media marketing can be developed by any organization in order to
maintain a proper approach to the market all over the world. This research helps in identifying the
impact of the social media as a marketing tool in the grey market. The trust factors of the people
over the social media has been described in the paper. The use of the social media has been
initiated in various fields.
17. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
Yes it is similar to the “Trusted Information in an Age of Uncertainty” by Barry Trott.
18. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is different from “Information Literacy and Instruction: Trustworthiness: What Are We
Teaching?” by Esther Grassain.
19. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
These paper suggest about the importance of data and information transferring through internet
and social media interference. I understood about the validity and reliability of data over the
internet.
20. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
I understood that importance of the data and information is an important topic for understanding
the validity and reliability if the data and information.
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