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Beyond the Culture Effect on Credibility Perception on Microblogs

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We investigated the credibility perception of tweet readers from the USA and by readers from eight Arabic countries; our aim was to understand if credibility was affected by country and/or by culture. Results from a crowd-sourcing experiment, showed a wide variety of factors affected credibility perception, including a tweet author’s gender, profile image, username style, location, and social network overlap with the reader. We found that culture determines readers’ credibility perception, but country has no effect. We discuss the implications of our findings for user interface design and social media systems.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_Arab_League.

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    Suliman Aladhadh, Xiuzhen Zhang & Mark Sanderson

  2. College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia

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Aladhadh, S., Zhang, X., Sanderson, M. (2017). Beyond the Culture Effect on Credibility Perception on Microblogs. In: Ciampaglia, G., Mashhadi, A., Yasseri, T. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_25

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