{"id":6778,"date":"2014-03-03T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:31:00","slug":"veracity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/03\/veracity\/","title":{"rendered":"Veracity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a rather old topic here at Science Surf &#8211;searching for truth in science while here is a fresh new look. \u00a0How can we trust twitter messages and alike, is there any truth in big data? \u00a0What is just an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_meme\">internet meme<\/a>? \u00a0Or a phenomenon &#8212; a\u00a0meaning what is experienced as given? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheme.eu\">pheme<\/a>? A new EU project explains<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veracity: The Fourth Challenge of Big Data<br \/>\nSocial media poses three major computational challenges, dubbed by Gartner the 3Vs of big data: volume, velocity, and variety.<br \/>\nPHEME will focus on a fourth crucial, but hitherto largely unstudied, challenge: veracity.<br \/>\nWe coined the term phemes to describe memes which are enhanced with truthfulness information. It is a reference also to Pheme \u2013 the Greek goddess of fame and rumours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s even an association that I didn&#8217;t have.<br \/>\nAnd it really looks like crucial project for the future. Only recently I was also fooled by a troll &#8211; not the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5955232\/trolls-try-to-convince-beliebers-to-shave-their-heads-by-spreading-rumor-that-justin-bieber-has-cancer\">Bieber<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/winfuture.de\/news,80593.html\">Threema<\/a> stories but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightingrumours.com\/mysterious-internet-troll-promotes-non-existent-brand-2480#.UxRLBtxj3x8\">minor technical issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a rather old topic here at Science Surf &#8211;searching for truth in science while here is a fresh new look. \u00a0How can we trust twitter messages and alike, is there any truth in big data? \u00a0What is just an internet meme? \u00a0Or a phenomenon &#8212; a\u00a0meaning what is experienced as given? A pheme? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/03\/veracity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veracity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[2838,2839,2840,2841,1543],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-believe","tag-big-data","tag-mining","tag-troll","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}