NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dotdash, Cognitive Load, Disintermediation

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1700
• Professor: Vera Pavri

Document Summary

Nats 1700 lecture 6: are people better informed in the information age: information credibility past and present. Prior to icts, credibility of information often verified through central authority figure (parent, teacher, expert, government, well known organization) that has reputation for providing credible information. Credibility traditionally associated with believability, trustworthiness and expertise. This verification system works well when you have limited sources and major restrictions to accessing information it is a hierarchal system of verifying information credibility. Metzger et al. (2010): these conditions create an environment of information scarcity where it is possible for gatekeepers to produce and filter much of the information available, and where those gatekeepers have incentive to uphold credibility standards . Increased ict usage has meant we live in a world today where there is an abundance and diversity of information sources and it is increasingly difficult to verify the credibility of this information.