The work aims to investigate the conspiracy-like and pseudo-scientific beliefs arose in Salento during a spread of a plant disease that affected olive tree crops known as "OQDS" and, more generally, tries to analyze through a socio-anthropological perspective the communication biases into the dialectical relationship between scientific research and general public and how social media platforms ...

BACKGROUND The importance of consumer trust in the food supply has previously been identified, and dimensions of consumer trust in food-who they trust and the type of trust that they exhibit-has been explored. However, there is a lack of research about the mechanisms through which consumer trust in the food supply is developed, maintained, broken and repaired. This study seeks to address this g...

To this date, research on crisis informatics has focused on the detection of trust in Twitter data through the use of message structure, sentiment, propagation and author. Little research has examined the usefulness of these messages in the crisis response domain. Toward detecting useful messages in case of crisis, in this paper, we characterize tweets, which are perceived useful or trustworthy...

In this paper we present findings from interviews conducted with representatives from large international disaster response organizations concerning their use of social media data in crisis response. We present findings in which the barriers to use by responding organizations have gone beyond simple discussions of trustworthiness to that of more operational issues rather than mere data quality....

Social media has deeply penetrated workplace, which has affected multiple aspects of employees’ lives. This paper aims to investigate the influence of social media on employees’ work performance and the underlying mechanism for how they create value at work. Based on media synchronicity and social capital theories, we propose that social media can promote work performance by stimulating trust a...