People, Profiles and Trust: on Interpersonal Trust in Web-mediated Social SpacesLulu.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. |
Inhalt
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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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