{"id":597,"date":"2019-07-17T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2019-07-18T13:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T11:20:38","slug":"2-1-5-goals-and-intended-audience-for-the-contents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/2-1-5-goals-and-intended-audience-for-the-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"2.1.5. Goals and intended audience for the contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured featured-blue\"><p>An explicit statement of the goals and purposes in a given web provides elements for clarity in terms of the degree and sort of confidence the user may feel towards the site. Nevertheless, this is not a sign of credibility by itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A site that is explicitly commercial may be as reliable as a University-related site in terms of contents, as long as it openly states its goals, its character and its intention, so that the user always knows what kind of information he\/she is having access to, what the source goals are and, therefore, what the framework for its credibility is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Academic-oriented.<\/li>\n<li>Institutional.<\/li>\n<li>Information-related or related to information dissemination.<\/li>\n<li>Journalistic.<\/li>\n<li>Instructive.<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive or commercially-oriented.<\/li>\n<li>Leisure-oriented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Assessing the purpose of the website allows us to determine whether the information provided may be useful for our search goals, and to define how specialized the contents are.<\/p>\n<p>The URL address of a site, in some cases, may indicate the purpose of the website. For instance, \u201c.edu\u201d shows the website is an education-related website. In this way, we may also find what the target audience for the website is.<\/p>\n<p>Still in terms of purpose, knowing about the intended audience for the website we choose helps us assess whether it may suit our needs. For instance, an informative content for a general audience will not probably be appropriate if we are performing an investigation and\/or an academic-related search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A site that is explicitly commercial may be as reliable as a University-related site in terms of contents, as long as it openly states its goals, its character and its intention, so that the user always knows what kind of information he\/she is having access to, what the source goals are and, therefore, what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}