Between trust and mistrust: Source evaluation behaviours of Brazilian and French adolescents searching for scientific information on the Web

IF 1.8 4区管理学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Information Science Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI:10.1177/01655515231214997

W. Castilhos, M. Macedo-Rouet, Luisa Massarani, C. Almeida

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Abstract

In this qualitative study, 41 adolescents from Brazil and France were asked to conduct web-based searches for science-related information. Different search contexts and current socio-scientific issues were used in order to represent a variety of situations that adolescents are confronted with in their everyday life. Subsequently, they were interviewed about their individual searches. We sought to answer three questions: (a) What types of sources do Brazilian and French adolescents access in their searches? (b) Which evaluation criteria do they use to select the sources they access? (c) Do their source choices differ according to the search context? The results reveal that, regardless of search context, the participants demonstrated trust in news sources, and mistrust towards official sources, mostly as a function of the topic. Receiver-related criteria were particularly relevant for the Brazilian adolescents when selecting the sources, while the French participants based their choices more on parameters related to the content. Results suggest how previous knowledge and interest on the topic can influence teenagers’ choices.

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信任与不信任之间：巴西和法国青少年在网络上搜索科学信息时的来源评估行为

在这项定性研究中，来自巴西和法国的 41 名青少年被要求通过网络搜索与科学相关的信息。研究采用了不同的搜索环境和当前的社会科学问题，以体现青少年在日常生活中遇到的各种情况。随后，他们就各自的搜索情况接受了访谈。我们试图回答三个问题：(a) 巴西和法国青少年在搜索过程中会访问哪些类型的资料来源？ (b) 他们使用哪些评估标准来选择他们访问的资料来源？(c) 他们对信息源的选择是否因搜索环境的不同而不同？研究结果表明，无论搜索环境如何，参与者都表现出对新闻来源的信任和对官方来源的不信任，这主要与主题有关。巴西青少年在选择新闻来源时，与接收者相关的标准尤为重要，而法国参与者则更多地考虑与内容相关的参数。研究结果表明，以往的知识和对话题的兴趣会影响青少年的选择。

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Journal of Information Science 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

8.30%

发文量

121

审稿时长

4 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Information Science is a peer-reviewed international journal of high repute covering topics of interest to all those researching and working in the sciences of information and knowledge management. The Editors welcome material on any aspect of information science theory, policy, application or practice that will advance thinking in the field.