People, Profiles and Trust: on Interpersonal Trust in Web-mediated Social Spaces

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Lulu.com, 17.09.2008 - 171 Seiten
As web-mediated social spaces become more commonplace on the internet, a need arises for understanding classical social phenomena in this new context. Trust is one of these phenomena. The purpose of this book is to study several aspects of interpersonal trust in web-mediated social spaces. More specifically, this book discusses questions on how predominant social orders, space design, and representations of user identity affect trust on the individual level.
 

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A Brief Introduction
2
Introduction
43
The Company
61
Take Control of Your Reputation
74
Giving Trust a Hand
88
Introduction
93
Chapter 9
109
Performative Representations
128
Signs of Performativity
134
Conclusions
141
Tensions Between Different Predominant Forms of Social Orders
143
Interviews
160
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