"fact or fiction?" Imposing legitimacy for trustworthy information on the web: A qualitative inquiry

• Published in: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
• Main Author: Ibrahim E.N.M.; Noor N.L.M.; Mehad S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2009
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-64549125174&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-00670-8_22&partnerID=40&md5=b6c966e9e1f4e9d20d55b57005ba53ec

The question on how to impose the sense of "legitimacy" in designing information artifact which can be rationalized and controlled as part of the overall interface design strategy and future IS construction for sensitive settings becomes our primary aim of this research. The research key focal point is to refine the notions of the human computer interface within the Web Mediated Information Environment (W-MIE) context through the evolution of novel ways in assisting its design deployment and evaluation from non technical perspectives of requirements by addressing the earliest (conceptual) state of development work concerning the role of "soft" trust dimensions, as signals for trustworthiness governing interaction on the web. Drawing the attention to the web based information for Islamic content sharing sites, the paper present and discussed empirical results of its qualitative study that explicate the role of "institutional symbolisms" representation to safeguard interaction on the web. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.