Miriam J. Metzger

Communication scholar at UC Santa Barbara specializing in online credibility assessment, digital media literacy, and how users evaluate information quality in online environments.

Sources in this wiki

• Credibility and trust of information in online environments (2013) — Systematic survey of cognitive heuristics used in credibility evaluation online
• 2010-metzger-social-heuristic-credibility
• 2007-metzger-credibility-on-web
• 2003-metzger-credibility-21st-century

Topics

• credibility, source-evaluation, cognitive-heuristics, information-processing

Notes

Frequent collaborator with Andrew Flanagin; co-authors multiple works on credibility assessment and media literacy. Key contributor to frameworks for understanding how individuals judge information trustworthiness online.