IBR09: Trust & Lies
by Sinéad
Lying is part of daily life, and the Internet simply provides another space in which individuals can lie. Feature based theory suggests that three dimensions must be considered when examining deception – if the medium is synchronous, recordless and distributed. It has been proposed that individuals were less likely to lie in a recordable medium.
Due to the archiving feature of blogging this could suggest that bloggers are less likely to lie on their blogs in comparison to other online mediums, such as synchronous chat. However, with regard to blogging there are issues of identity concealment to consider, whilst deceptive, they are necessary to preserve the bloggers’ privacy.
Correspondingly, this research found that over 86% of bloggers indicated that they actively attempt to verify information before posting it on their blog, and 87% indicated that they had never published a lie on their blog. Of the small number of bloggers that had posted a lie, the majority done so to either to maintain their anonymity or for the purposes of fiction/satire or to embellish a story.
The majority of both bloggers and non-bloggers indicated that they had at least once attempted to double check information found on both Irish and non-Irish blogs, with only approx. 15% having never done this. However, this doesn’t necessarily indicate low levels of trust in the medium, but does perhaps point toward an awareness of the fact that blog publishing is unregulated.
Comments
Interesting subject. Lies and unverified facts or truths.
Thoughts and words are biased upon the thinker and speaker.
I often wonder what people are thinking of me whether it be as they pass in view of me at work, or in a pub, or on the train [etc.] and how opinion forming can be based or biaed on our own impressions or those of others which for the most part can be in the dark in regards to truth or fact.
In regards to your blog post above, people can certainly not be speaking of the whole truth even in face to face, let alone over the phone, via e-mai or internet messaging
or blogging.
I snipped my ramblings of the three dimensions you mentioned above, wondering if there was a real point to what I was saying.
I have had no access to Twitter for 25 hours now,
still missing it loads, but ‘life’ has to move on,
off to breakfast, food shopping and the local for
card playing at a few glasses.
Have a lovely day..
Seamus
: )
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