Research Methods: Annotated Bibliography on Social Media Trust Trends

This annotated bibliography examines the theme of trust in social media through a selection of articles and research papers. The included annotations detail each paper's reference information, search terms used to find the paper, whether the paper was peer-reviewed, the author's affiliations and expertise, the paper's main topic, and comparisons to other readings. The bibliography covers a range of perspectives, from surveys on social media trust to analyses of data validity and the shift from traditional media to social media for news consumption. Observations and ideas for contributing to a group research paper are also included, focusing on understanding data reliability and surveying public trust 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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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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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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Author (date)
21. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
Oppenheim, "People are starting to trust 'traditional' media over social media, report finds", The
Independent, 2018. [Online]. Available:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edelman-trust-barometer-social-media-trust-
declined-a8170816.html. [Accessed: 20- May- 2018].
22. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I used keyword as social media trust on Google and got result of this article.
23. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
No, this is just an article published on the Independent news.
24. 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?
Maya Oppenheim is a journalist working in the Independent news.
25. What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
Yes, he is an expert in the journalism.
26. What was the paper about?
The research found declining levels of faith in social media giants was triggered by Britons feeling
firms were not doing enough to properly tackle imperative issues. This paper describes about the
difference between the traditional and modern media. The social media has been increasing the
curiosity of people regarding the use of the modern media. The use of social media in the
development of various news has been described in the paper. Various traditional method of
media have been explained in the paper. The limitations of traditional media has been described
in the paper. Social media has been providing accessibility to customers in purpose of
understanding their interests and expectation form companies in the market. Social media
connects millions of people from all over the word using various platforms including Twitter,
Facebook and YouTube
27. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is similar to “How to Use Social Media to Build Brand Trust” by Jay Baer.
28. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This is different to “Social Media Marketing Is a Lot Tougher With Trust in Social Media Plunging”
by Keith Quesenberry.
29. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
This has helped in gathering knowledge about various fields on the social media platform.
30. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
This paper has helped in understanding the knowledge about the trust factor on social media.
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Author (date)
31. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
How people decide what to trust on social media and online", American Press Institute, 2018.
[Online]. Available: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/
news-trust-digital-social-media/. [Accessed: 20- May- 2018].
32. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I searched about keyword trust in social media on America Press Institute website.
33. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
No, this is just an article published in America Press Institute
34. 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?
This is an anonymous article published on America Press Institute
35. What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
This website is expert on social networking.
36. What was the paper about?
This paper explains various ways by which people decide to trust in social media news. Social
media platform has been creating a concrete place in the market as a marketing tool. The use of
the social media in different perspective has been mentioned in the research paper. The use of
the social media as marketing tool has been helping in maintaining and increasing the brand
value of any industry or organization. This internet based services has helped in maintaining a
keen approach to the market for the customers. Increase in the information technology in the
market has been creating and providing opportunity to the business organization in order to
marmite their services and products in the market. However, the popularity of social media has
been increasing in the market with the changing demand in the market.
37. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is similar to “Trusting Social Media as a Source of Health Information: Online Surveys
Comparing the United States, Korea, and Hong Kong.”
38. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
This paper is different from Credibility in social media: opinions, news, and health information by
Marco Viviani.
39. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
This help in gathering knowledge about the mentality of people in order to understand the validity
and reliability of social media.
40. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
This reading might help in surveying various people related to the trust on social media.
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Author (date)
41. What is the paper’s reference in the IEEE style?
Papadopoulos, Symeon, Kalina Bontcheva, Eva Jaho, Mihai Lupu, and Carlos Castillo. "Overview
of the special issue on trust and veracity of information in social media." ACM Transactions on
Information Systems (TOIS) 34, no. 3 (2016): 14.
42. How did you find the paper? If applicable, write a list of the search terms you used.
I searched about trust on social media over google.
43. Was the paper peer-reviewed? Explain how you found out.
Yes. It is well published having validity of the content.
44. 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 is a journalist in the ACM.
45. What does this tell you about their expertise? Are they an expert in the topic area?
The author is expert in social media networking.
46. What was the paper about?
The paper is about issue on trust and veracity of information in social media. Online networking
has turned into the most vital and essential piece of the clients since the web-based social
networking sites and in addition the applications is multiplied. The most conventional methods for
web-based social networking predominantly includes a few social parts including remark fields for
clients. The web-based social networking investigation is the best possible routine with regards to
gathering and keeping information from every one of the sites of online networking or s and
consequently examining those information for taking or settling on different business choices.
47. Is this paper similar to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is similar to Tang, Jiliang, and Huan Liu. "Trust in social media." Synthesis Lectures on
Information Security, Privacy, & Trust 10, no. 1 (2015): 1-129.
48. Is this paper different to other papers you have read for this assignment? If so, which papers and
why?
The paper is different from Imran, Muhammad, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Sarah
Vieweg. "Processing social media messages in mass emergency: A survey." ACM Computing
Surveys (CSUR) 47, no. 4 (2015): 67.
49. What do these similarities and differences suggest? What are your observations? Do you have
any new ideas? Do you have any conclusions?
This paper helps in managing data and information related to the trust on the social media.
50. How do you envisage this reading contributing to your group’s research paper?
This paper helps in providing data and information from the survey done in the research paper.
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