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Cognitive authority

Patrick Wilson (1983) developed the cognitive authority theory from social epistemology in his book, Second-hand Knowledge: An Inquiry into Cognitive… 
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2017
2017
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of anti-vaccination information on Facebook
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Cultural influences on seeking quality health information: An exploratory study of the Korean community
Review
2011
Review
2011
Is Hearing Believing? Perception of Online Information Credibility by Screen Reader Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired
While credibility perception on the Web is a well-researched topic across multiple disciplines, extant studies have not… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Credibility and Cognitive Authority of Information
This entry defines the concepts of information credibility and cognitive authority, introduces the key terms and dimensions of… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Doctors' online information needs, cognitive search strategies, and judgments of information quality and cognitive authority: How predictive judgments introduce bias into cognitive search models
Literature examining information judgments and Internet search behaviors notes a number of major research gaps, including how… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Towards a New Professional Autonomy in the Public Sector
In 2001 Eliot Freidson published his last book “Professionalism, The Third Logic” before he died in 2005. In this book he… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science
The basic realist claim is that a mind-independent reality exists. It should be common sense knowledge to accept this claim, just… 
2001
2001
Scholarly misconduct and misinformation on the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a potentially powerful channel for misinformation. Focusing upon scholarly misconduct as a source of… 
1996
1996
Technological change in nurse education as a professionalisation strategy
The transfer of basic nurse education to the tertiary sector in New South Wales brought about major changes to the philosophy… 
1983
1983
Second-hand knowledge
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