...Reijo Savolainen Purpose The study aims to contribute to information behaviour research by examining how attitude-based appeals are used to persuade fellow participants in online discussion about contentious issues. Design/methodology/approach The empirical findings draw on the descriptive...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose This study aims to elaborate on the picture of the informational credibility of rumours and the ways in which false political rumours are debunked in online discussion. Design/methodology/approach Descriptive quantitative analysis and qualitative content analysis...

... in online discussion forums. In an early investigation, Wilhelm (1998) analysed a sample of posts submitted to Usenet newsgroups discussing political issues. The results showed that the bulk of the postings were expressions of opinions, while the share of posts indicative of attempts to seek information...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose This article aims to elaborate the context-sensitive nature of credibility assessment by examining how such judgments are made in online discussion in times of uncertainty caused by Finland's intent to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in spring 2022...

... and shared in online discussion. Experiential information is approached by identifying two constitutive aspects: (1) sensory information that an individual obtains from noticeable events lived through by means of human senses such as sight and touch and (2) cognitive–affective information...