Authorship and affiliation as an indicator of quality criteria in Web 2.0: The Blogs about the environment.
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https://doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.1311Keywords:
Environment, Blogs, Internet, Web 2.0, information dissemination, quality controlAbstract
Aim: To describe content quality and its relation with authorship and / or affiliation in the Blogs about the Environment.
Methods: A descriptive study of the Blogs was carried out using the searches on “Google Blogs Search”. Data were obtained from direct access to and consultation of the blogs studied via the Internet. Three hundred and eighty six blogs were selected and located using simple random sampling without replacement. Studying the accessible and in case of not being able to access, it was replaced by the one that was not previously selected in the sampling.
The statistical calculations were performed using the program SPSS®. The qualitative variables were described with their absolute value and percentage. The existence of a linear trend relationship between variables was performed by the Chi Square test. The significance level used in all of the hypothesis comparisons was ? ? 0.05.
Results: The results reveal that indication of authorship on the Blogs studied implied greater suitability of the contents concerning environment (Pearson`s test ?2 = 13.306, p < 0.01), as did the existence of affiliation to an institution (Pearson’s test ?2 = 7.015, p < 0.01).
However, it is important to point out that there were no significant differences in the adequacy of content when the blog studied presents authorship and filiation (Pearson’s test ?2 = 4.546, p = 0.103).
Conclusions: Contrary to expectations, in the subject-matter (area/field of study) about the Environment, the presence of an author linked to a reference institution has not presented significant results, and therefore this circumstance should not presuppose a greater adequacy of the Blog, consequently, in this case, would not be a criterion of quality to take into account.Downloads
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