Skip to main content

Home/ WomensLearningStudio/ Group items tagged crap detection

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Lisa Levinson

Crap Detection Resources - 0 views

docs.google.com/...mobilebasic

womenslearningstudio WLStudio crap detection resources Howard Rheingold

shared by Lisa Levinson on 09 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Lisa Levinson on 09 Jan 17
     
    Howard Rheingold et al has created this Google Doc that is updated regularly with resources that help you detect "crap" onlline info. The resources are categorized into subjects: identity; political; consumer/business; medical, images; urban legends, hoaxes and emails; journalism; collective intelligence and user-based detection; academia and education; events; miscellaneous; web sites; web pages; twitter; video
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

CONTENT CURATION AND CRAP DETECTION ~ Learnnovators - 0 views

learnnovators.com/...ontent-curation-crap-detection

curation content_curation crap_detection Kumar womenslearningstudio

shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17
     
    great post by Srividya Kumar on content curation and crap detection
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Crap Detection 101 - City Brights: Howard Rheingold - 0 views

blog.sfgate.com/...crap-detection-101

crap detection Rheingold digital literacy womenslearningstudio

shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Oct 13
     
    Need to review this and do my own graphic or capture, published 6/30/09 at SFgate.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

You're Probably Getting Scammed By the Crowdsourced Hive Mind - CityLab - 0 views

www.citylab.com/...397853

crowdsourcing crap_detection Yelp Trip_Advisor womenslearningstudio

shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 09 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • researchers found that reviewers are easily manipulated by “social influence bias,” a feedback loop in which positive reviews beget more positive reviews
  • The Italian newspaper Italia a Tavola recently proved how necessary that enhanced insight is. Staffers scammed the ratings system by creating a profile for a fake restaurant in Moniga del Garda then posting 10 glowing ratings (under different usernames) over the course of a month, Jezebel reported. Within weeks, La Scaletta had the highest TripAdvisor ratings in town—despite the fact that it didn’t exist.
  • Why were people so quick to take the reviews at face value? “Stories that come from other people [are viewed as] much more believable than information from companies, because our working assumption is that [individuals] don't have an ulterior motive,” says Sarah G. Moore, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Alberta. Additionally, given a lack of identifying information, we
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 09 Jul 15
     
    Interesting article by Jessica Leigh Hester, July 7, 2015 on CityLab that shows impact of "social influence bias" in crowdsourced opinions--good case for crap detection. Don't know how to get around it except look at other review sites, business's website, etc.
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page