A note on advices on dealing with the information quality issue in secondary research: for MBA and Housing Studies students
A note on advices on dealing with the information quality issue in secondary research: for MBA and Housing Studies students With regard to the research issues of information warfare, as well as the fake news and rumours in the public media, highlight 4 main ideas of secondary research and 4 practice advices based on these main ideas for part-time MBA and Housing Studies students to deal with these research issues when doing their 4-month dissertation projects. For a 4-month MBA or Housing Studies dissertation on information warfare, fake news, and rumors, the safest approach is to build your secondary research around source credibility, mechanism, context, and practical response. The four ideas and four practice advices below are shaped by recent scholarship on disinformation, counter-disinformation, and social-media amplification. 4 main ideas for secondary research 1. Define the phenomenon carefully. Separate misinformation, disinformation, fake ne...