Credibility (week 14)

Q1)

• CREDIBILITY:  Credibility is a key factor in a Web sits’s ability to persuade. Fogg, B. J. (2003). Credibility means believable, if something or someone is perceived to be gtrustworthy plus is perceived to have expertise then there is probability that credibility has been perceived through this process.

• To be able to increase your poweres of persuasion you need show strong aspects of being fair, truthful and beign unbiased.  Although I feel strongly that with this in mind someone that you should still keep your morals high and intact so that there is a win-win situation for all concerned.

• In order to scan the credibility of a website one might research who the author is, when the content was posted, and then compare the content with other sources online.  

• The following examples listed have been associated with what causes a decrease in credibility:

• When you can’t make out the difference between adds and content.
• When new pop up windos appear with adds or press here now.
• The domain name does not match the company’s name.

• The following lists the items the increase credibility:

• Quick responses to customers questions.
• Emailing back confrimation transactions the client may make.
• The author’s are listed for each peice of work.
• The site has archives.
• Looks like it’s been designed professionaly.
• The site has regular updates.

• It is important that as a student we are aware of this in order to gain the best and true knowledge.

Q2)

 

• WIKIPEDIA:  Is not accepted as a resourse for study I think because we have to be aware of information having different meanings through differnt cultural circumstances, so it is not allways clear or relevant. Also differnt behavioral patterns, which have now caused enough false and defamatory information on the site.  But in saying this then I question any site on the web, as this could happen even in the most so called saftest, credible sites? After all you would only have to know how to be credible to decive your audience, that is the part about the web I do not like, but then you get that in the real world also, I guess it is just a fact of life. 

 

Q3)

 

• THINGS THAT MAY EFFECT THE USERS’ PERCEIVED WEB CREDIBILITY IN THE FUTURE:  I am not fully confident to answer this question, but I can only imagine we must continue to research into what consumers deem as being trustworthy and continualy keep up with this research in order to make our websites in the future most credible.

 

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• WEEK 4 ACTIVITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• RENEE PROFILE & CARICATURE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES:

Fogg, B.J. (2003). Credibility and the World Wide Web.  In Persuasive Technology: Using COmputers to Change What We Think and Do (pp. 122-125).  Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Photos: Website Photos, Retreived 11 June 2009 from: http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=credibility%20websites&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Web Credibility, How do People Evaluate A Web Site’s Credibility. Retreived from: http://consumerwebwatch.org

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