Credibility influences a user’s interest in a web site. Once users perceive the credibility of a web site they will be more likely to use it. A combination of factors affects such credibility – such as the provider, content, aesthetics, accessibility and solution of technical problems. The aesthetics of a web site can affect a user’s first impressions of credibility. Experiments have shown that...

With the fast development of Social Networking Services (SNS) such as Twitter, which enable users to exchange short messages online, people can get information not only from the traditional news media but also from the masses of SNS users. However, SNS users sometimes propagate spurious or misleading information, so an effective way to automatically assess the credibility of information is requ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometric questionnaire in order to evaluate the educational web site “Youth 2004” considering the attitudes and the perceptions of Greek Australian students. In addition, the differences among the age and sex were also investigated. Participants were 317 Greek Australian students, between the ages from 12-17 years old. Data was collected using an o...

I argue that taking the Practical Conditionals Thesis (PCT) seriously demands a new understanding of the semantics of such conditionals. Practical Conditionals Thesis: A practical conditional [if A][ought(B)] expresses B’s conditional preferability given A Paul Weirich has argued that the conditional utility of a state of affairs B on A is to be identified as the degree to which it is desired u...

The open nature of the World Wide Web makes evaluating webpage credibility challenging for users. In this paper, we aim to automatically assess web credibility by investigating various characteristics of webpages. Specifically, we first identify features from textual content, link structure, webpages design, as well as their social popularity learned from popular social media sites (e.g., Faceb...

The formation of macroeconomic policy is conceptualized as on-going process of interaction between private individuals and a centralized policymaker. This interaction is inherently strategic in nature and lends itself to a gametheoretical treatment. Starting from the basic principle of rational expectations, the analysis advances a theoretical perspective on the related concepts of macroeconomi...