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Identifying cognitive authority in social networks: a conceptual framework

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The popularization of online social networks has contributed to the appearance of new strategies that consider the relationship and interaction between people as a means to support information search and recommendation. The literature has indicated that a cognitive authority produces and shares information of better quality and relevance for those who recognizes that authority, being a promising concept to support information retrieval and quality judgement on the web. However, identifying such authorities is still a challenge. In this paper, we introduce the idAuthority: a conceptual framework to support the identification of cognitive authorities in social networks. To illustrate its application in a practical context, we instantiate the framework for a real online social network of Inclusive Education teachers, and evaluate its results with a group of six teachers. The results indicate the idAuthority as a promising framework to support the creation of mechanisms for identifying cognitive authorities in specific social networks.

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    IHC '15: Proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    November 2015
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    DOI:10.1145/3148456
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