The Role of Fan Identification in the Perceived Credibility of Sports Articles

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean R. Sadri
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Other ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Fan Identification ◽  
Perceived Credibility

The current study examined how article source, medium, and fan identification can all affect the credibility of sports articles. An online experiment was conducted, and participants read an article that was indicated to have originated from a mainstream sports Web site, a sports blog, a social-networking site, or a wire service. Analysis revealed that fan-identification level was an important factor in credibility ratings in which highly identified fans found sports articles to be significantly more credible than fans with low identification. Highly identified fans also rated the article as equally credible on all 3 Web sites. However, low-identification fans rated the mainstream sports Web site article as significantly more credible than the other 2. Article medium was not shown to have a significant influence on perceived credibility for either identification group. The implications of fan-identification level on the discrepancies in ratings of perceived credibility are explored.

The Rise of the Modern Sports Article

2017 ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean R. Sadri
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
New Age ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Fan Identification ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Article Study

The evolution of online media has brought forth a new age of fandom online for sport enthusiasts with access to hundreds of new sports articles daily. This chapter touches on the perceived credibility of the modern sports article and provides evidence from scholarly studies, including the author's own sports credibility study. The study examines how article source, medium, fan identification, and user comment tone can all impact the credibility of a sports article. Study participants were randomly assigned to read a sports article in 1 of 12 stimuli groups. The article source was indicated to have appeared on a mainstream sports website, a sports blog, a social networking site, or a wire service as well as with positive comments, negative comments, or without comments. Analysis revealed that fan identification level was an important factor in credibility ratings as highly identified fans found the article to be significantly more credible than low identification fans as a whole. The study implications and factors influencing the credibility of an online sports article are explored.

The Rise of the Modern Sports Article

2018 ◽  
pp. 486-505
Author(s):  
Sean R. Sadri
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
New Age ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Fan Identification ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Article Study

The evolution of online media has brought forth a new age of fandom online for sport enthusiasts with access to hundreds of new sports articles daily. This chapter touches on the perceived credibility of the modern sports article and provides evidence from scholarly studies, including the author's own sports credibility study. The study examines how article source, medium, fan identification, and user comment tone can all impact the credibility of a sports article. Study participants were randomly assigned to read a sports article in 1 of 12 stimuli groups. The article source was indicated to have appeared on a mainstream sports website, a sports blog, a social networking site, or a wire service as well as with positive comments, negative comments, or without comments. Analysis revealed that fan identification level was an important factor in credibility ratings as highly identified fans found the article to be significantly more credible than low identification fans as a whole. The study implications and factors influencing the credibility of an online sports article are explored.

scholarly journals The complex assessment of official web-sites of medical organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
O. V. Khodakova ◽  
Yuliya V. Evstaf’Eva
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Price Competition ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Given ◽  
System Reformation

The patient is a principal part in market relationships in conditions of health care system reformation. The patient is a consumer of medical services provided with set of rights, including right to choice of medical organization and right to choice ofphysician. The implementation of the given rights is possible only in conditions of competition at medical services market. So, in present situation, maintenance and getting involvedflow of patients are actual tasks raised before medical organizations. At the present stage, the official Internet web-site of medical organization play the role of one of tools of non-price competition at the market of medical services. The availability of official web-site with information in concordance with approved requirements to its content and form of presentation is a commitment of medical organizations of all organizational and legal forms fixed at the legislative level. The main purpose of web-site is to support awareness ofpatients concerning all issues related to medical services receiving, including choice of medical organization. The openness and accessibility of information to patient is a criterion of quality of web-site of medical organization. The purpose of study is to evaluate content, informativeness, accessibility and practical significance of official web-sites of medical organizations. The article presents the results of complex studying of web-sites of medical organizations including comparative analysis of official web-sites of medical organizations of state and non-state forms ofproperty, sociological assessment of structural stuffing of official web-sites of medical organizations as a tool of informing population about medical care, expertise evaluation of informativeness, accessibility and functionality of official web-sites of medical organizations.

Social Networking for Educational Purposes

2015 ◽  
pp. 304-326
Author(s):  
Nikleia Eteokleous-Grigoriou ◽  
Despo Ktoridou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Skills

This chapter examines and evaluates the role, usefulness, and value of social networking as perceived by higher education students. It examines the educational role of social networking by developing Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within a social networking site (Facebook). It also tries to examine the development of socio-cultural skills through the SIGs created within the social networking site. Specifically, this chapter describes and presents an evaluation of the use of three Facebook SIGs by faculty and students of five Universities in Cyprus in three discipline areas: 1) MIS – Management Information Systems; 2) Computer Science; and 3) Engineering. A mixed method approach was employed, collecting quantitative data (through questionnaires) and qualitative data (through focus groups and Facebook SIGs' observations). The results highlight the promising and important role as well as the value of such online groups in both social and academic life. Additionally, the development of socio-cultural skills through the use of Facebook and specifically the SIGs is discussed. Finally, the chapter discusses the “best practice” policies for Facebook integration for educational purposes.

Role of Social Media in Tourism

2015 ◽  
pp. 142-162
Author(s):  
Vipin K. Nadda ◽  
Sumesh Singh Dadwal ◽  
Dirisa Mulindwa ◽  
Rubina Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

Revolutionary development in field of communication and information technology have globally opened new avenue of marketing tourism and hospitality products. Major shift in web usage happened when Napster in 1999 released peer-to-peer share media and then with pioneer social networking websites named ‘Six Degrees'. This kind of interactive social web was named as ‘Web 2.0'. It would create openness, community and interaction. Web2. is also known as Social media base. Social media is incudes “all the different kinds of content that form social networks: posts on blogs or forums, photos, audio, videos, links, profiles on social networking web sites, status updates and more”. It allows people to create; upload post and share content easily and share globally. Social media allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content and experiences online. Thus, social media is any kind of information we share with our social network, using social networking web sites and services.

Individual Differences in Social Networking Site Adoption

2010 ◽  
pp. 1569-1586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsha Gangadharbatla
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Acceptance Model

This chapter focuses on detailing the role of five individual level factors—Internet self-efficacy, self-esteem, need to belong, need for information, and gender—in influencing the attitudes toward social networking sites (SNS) and the adoption of such sites. First, the growing importance of social networking sites in business is discussed, and their usage as advertising vehicles is outlined. Individual differences in SNS adoption are presented from a technology acceptance model framework. A paperpencil- based survey is conducted and data obtained is used to test a structural model that explains the role of individual-level factors in influencing individuals’ attitudes toward SNS, their willingness to join SNS, and their actual membership on SNS. Results are presented and managerial implications are drawn.

A Community Web Site Initiative

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Heather Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Internet Adoption ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Online Business ◽  
The Village

This chapter reports on a study investigating a community Web site project operating in a UK village community. The aim of the study is to determine the impacts the online business directory component of this community Web site is having on the small businesses in the village, including consideration of the benefits they are deriving from their participation in the directory, the problems they have encountered through their participation, and the effects their involvement is having on their wider Internet adoption strategy and decisions. The findings highlight the value of community Web sites for small businesses, both for those that have already adopted various Internet applications into their operations, as well as for non-adopters of the Internet. It is suggested that existing discussions of small business approaches to Internet adoption might usefully be extended to incorporate the role of community Web sites.

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