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Blogs of Information: How Gender Cues and Individual Motivations Influence Perceptions of Credibility
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This study examines how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational blogs. Using 2 experiments for data collection, this study manipulated the gender descriptors of a Weblog authors and had participants rate the overall perceived credibility of 1 of 3 blog posts. Male authors were deemed more credible than female authors, and main effects were found for information seekers, who found the blogs more credible than noninformation seekers. Implications are discussed.
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“This can introduce bias because (an author's) gender impacts on the experience of grief, the theme of some of our texts (Bierhals et al., 1996;Schwab, 1996), and on readers' perception of authorial skills (Armstrong & McAdams, 2009;Paludi & Strayer, 1985;Weinberg & Kapelner, 2018).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Armstrong, C. L., & McAdams, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- ORCID
- Armstrong, Cory L.
- Venue
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-04
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 435-456
- ISSN
- 1083-6101 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1969812592
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 37.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Keywords
- gender cues, perceived credibility, bloggers, author gender, information seekers, personal motivation, gender stereotypes, online information seeking
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