Title: Perceptions of the information quality of internet and traditional text sources among Chinese users of the internet

Authors: Barbara D. Klein, Yi Maggie Guo, Chunyue Zhou

Addresses: University of Michigan-Dearborn, 19000 Hubbard Drive, Dearborn, MI 48126, USA. ' University of Michigan-Dearborn, 19000 Hubbard Drive, Dearborn, MI 48126, USA. ' College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Haidian District, Shangyuan Cun #3, Beijing 100044, China

Abstract: Despite the recent explosive growth in internet usage in China, little research has addressed perceptions of the internet held by Chinese users. The results of a survey study of Chinese users| perceptions of the information quality of internet and traditional text sources of information are reported. Results show significant differences in perceptions of the internet and traditional text sources of information. Chinese users perceive the believability, accuracy, objectivity, reputation, interpretability, representational consistency, concise reputation, and access security of traditional text sources of information such as books, magazine, journals, and newspapers to be higher than that of internet sources and the completeness, appropriate amount, and accessibility of internet sources to be higher than traditional text sources of information.

Keywords: information quality; internet perceptions; information sources; Chinese end users; China; traditional text sources; quality perceptions; user perceptions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIQ.2011.040670

International Journal of Information Quality, 2011 Vol.2 No.3, pp.231 - 243

Published online: 31 Oct 2014 *

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