Journal article
How the document got its authority
Journal of documentation, v 72(2), pp 299-305
01 Jan 2016
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Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to invite further consideration of and research into the authoritativeness, reliability and trustworthiness of documents. How do documents come to be trusted? Why are some more trusted than others?
Design/methodology/approach - The cases of the Oxford English Dictionary and Wikipedia policies are explored from a historical perspective, and other cases are considered.
Findings - Authoritativeness seems inherent to documents because of a cognitive metaphor that says "what is persistent is trustworthy".
Practical implications - This feature of documents exposes users to a number of pitfalls related to trusting illegitimate documents. This has important implications for document literacy.
Originality/value - New insight into documents is achieved by applying cognitive metaphors and prototype theory to documents.
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Details
- Title
- How the document got its authority
- Creators
- Tim Gorichanaz - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of documentation, v 72(2), pp 299-305
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000374155100007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84959355516
- Other Identifier
- 991019167591404721
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- Computer Science, Information Systems
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