The reputation society how online opinions are reshaping the offline world

In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve as filters for information overload. In this book, experts discuss t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Masum, Hassan, 1971-, Tovey, Mark, 1970-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
SeriesInformation society series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262298476
9780262016643
9781283448871
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xxi, 220 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Trust, reputation systems, and the immune system of democracy / Craig Newmark
  • Building the reputation society / Hassan Masum, Mark Tovey, & Yi-Cheng Zhang
  • Designing reputation systems for the social web / Chrysanthos Dellarocas
  • Web reputation systems and the real world / Randy Farmer
  • An inquiry into effective reputation and rating systems / John Henry Clippinger
  • The biology of reputation / John Whitfield
  • Regulating reputation / Eric Goldman
  • Less regulation, more reputation / Lior Strahilevitz
  • The role of reputation systems in managing online communities / Cliff Lampe
  • Attention philanthropy : giving reputation a boost / Alex Steffen
  • Making use of reputation systems in philanthropy / Marc Maxson & Mari Kuraishi
  • The measurement and mismeasurement of science / Michael Nielsen
  • Usage-based reputation metrics in science / Victor Henning, Jason Hoyt, and Jan Reichelt
  • Open access and academic reputation / John Willinsky
  • Reputation-based governance and making states "legible" to their citizens / Lucio Picci
  • Trust it forward : tyranny of the majority or echo chambers? / Paolo Massa
  • Rating in large-scale argumentation systems / Luca Iandoli, Josh Introne, & Mark Klein
  • Privacy, context, and oversharing : reputational challenges in a Web 2.0 world / Michael Zimmer & Anthony Hoffman
  • The future of reputation networks / Jamais Cascio
  • "I hope you know this is going on your permanent record" / Madeline Ashby & Cory Doctorow.