What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- The Internet
- Social psychology
- World Wide Web
Her scientific interests lie mostly in The Internet, Internet privacy, Source credibility, Information literacy and Public relations.
Her The Internet study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as New media, Advertising, Journalism, Newspaper and Data science.
Miriam J. Metzger combines subjects such as Mass communication, Mass media, Multimedia and Conceptualization with her study of New media.
Many of her studies involve connections with topics such as Web application and Internet privacy.
Her Source credibility research covers fields of interest such as Social media, Focus group, Social computing, Human geography and Geoweb.
Miriam J. Metzger regularly links together related areas like News media in her Public relations studies.
Her most cited work include:
- The science of fake news (947 citations)
- Perceptions of internet information credibility (674 citations)
- Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research (598 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Miriam J. Metzger mainly focuses on Internet privacy, The Internet, Social psychology, Social media and Public relations.
Her research investigates the connection between Internet privacy and topics such as Anonymity that intersect with issues in Engineering design process.
Her research in The Internet intersects with topics in Digital media, Advertising and Information literacy.
Her Advertising study combines topics in areas such as Quality and New media.
Her work on Optimism as part of general Social psychology research is often related to Human factors and ergonomics, Suicide prevention, Injury prevention and Control, thus linking different fields of science.
In her study, Fake news is inextricably linked to Misinformation, which falls within the broad field of Social media.
She most often published in these fields:
- Internet privacy (38.20%)
- The Internet (32.58%)
- Social psychology (23.60%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Social psychology (23.60%)
- Internet privacy (38.20%)
- Social media (20.22%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Social psychology, Internet privacy, Social media, Misinformation and Focus are her primary areas of study.
In the field of Social psychology, her study on Personality, Dominance, Cognitive dissonance and Self-perception theory overlaps with subjects such as Subjective norm.
Her research in the fields of Group privacy overlaps with other disciplines such as Information source.
Her Social media research incorporates elements of Collective action, Moderated mediation and Popularity.
The Misinformation study combines topics in areas such as Narrative, False accusation, Fake news and News sharing.
Focus is integrated with Human–computer interaction, Collective classification and Data science in her research.
Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News (55 citations)
- Connective-Collective Action on Social Media Moderated Mediation of Cognitive Elaboration and Perceived Source Credibility on Personalness of Source (16 citations)
- Making sense of credibility in complex information environments: the role of message sidedness, information source, and thinking styles in credibility evaluation online (11 citations)
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