Soo Young Rieh, Assistant Professor

School of Information, University of Michigan

Three Expertise Keywords:
cognitive-authority, Credibility, Digital Media, Information-quality, Information-seeking-behavior, Web-searching-behavior, Youth

Why Digital Media and Learning?

I am concerned the problem of how young people evaluate the information in their various information use enviornments.

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Description of Current Work:

My project examines the concept of credibility in the context of youths’ everyday life information-seeking by focusing on the relationship between information seeking strategies and credibility judgments.

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Hilligoss, B. & Rieh, S. Y. (2007). Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Concept, heuristics, and interaction in context. Information Processing and Management.  Rieh, S. Y. & Danielson, D. R. (2007). Credibility: A multidisciplinary framework.  In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Vol. 41, pp. 307-364). Medford, NJ: Information Today.  Rieh, S. Y., Hilligoss, B., & Yang, J. (2007). Toward an integrated framework of information and communication behavior: College students’ information resources and media selection. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44.

College Students’ Credibility Judgments in the Information-Seeking Process
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262562324.049 (MacArthur Series Author)