Trust as an Action: About the Overrated Significance of Trust in Information Sources in a Digitized World

Sarah Westphal () and Bernd Blöbaum ()
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Sarah Westphal: University of Münster
Bernd Blöbaum: University of Münster

A chapter in Trust and Communication in a Digitized World, 2016, pp 113-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper demonstrates that trust, which actually informs the actions of people, can only be identified under specific preconditions and is relevant less often than it appears to be by the frequent and manifold use of the term. Using online information as an example, it is pointed out, that, when defining trust with a focus on the trusting action, trust can only apply to one specific, pre-selected information source. Therefore, it is then argued, that trust is an especially rare and special phenomenon with information sources on the Internet.

Keywords: Trust; Information sources; Action; Trust process; Preconditions; Internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28059-2_6

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