Perceptions of the information quality of internet and traditional text sources among Chinese users of the internet Online publication date: Fri, 31-Oct-2014
by Barbara D. Klein, Yi Maggie Guo, Chunyue Zhou
International Journal of Information Quality (IJIQ), Vol. 2, No. 3, 2011
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.
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