Andrew Flanagin, Associate Professor

Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara

Three Expertise Keywords:
collective-action, credibility, internet

Read More:

http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/aflanagin_flash.htm
http://www.credibility.ucsb.edu

Why Digital Media and Learning?

I am involved in the future of Digital Media and Learning because understanding their intersection is critical as people are increasingly interconnected.

Recent Posts:

1. Andrew Flanagin: Digital Media & Learning at the ICA Conference (June 10, 2008)
2. Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger: Kids, Credibility, and Digital Media (January 14, 2008)
3. This Week’s Theme: Credibility in Digital Media (November 21, 2006)

Description of Current Work:

My current work focuses on the ways in which communication and information technologies structure and extend human interaction, with particular emphases on processes of information evaluation, sharing, and collective organizing.

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Metzger, M. J., & Flanagin, A. J.  (2008) Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility, Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility.

Metzger, M. J., & Flanagin, A. J. (Eds.) (2008). Digital media, youth, and credibility. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2007).  The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information. New Media & Society, 9(2),<i> 319-342.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2003).  The perceived credibility of personal web page information as influenced by the sex of the source.  <i>Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 683-701.

Metzger, M. J., Flanagin, A. J., Eyal, K., Lemus, D. R., & McCann, R. (2003).  Credibility in the 21st century: Integrating perspectives on source, message, and media credibility in the contemporary media environment.  In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 27 (pp. 293-335).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Metzger, M. J., Flanagin, A. J., & Zwarun, L. (2003).  College student web use, perceptions of information credibility, and verification behavior.  Computers & Education, 41, 271-290.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2000).  Perceptions of Internet information credibility.  Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77, 515-540.