The Reputation Society

by Masum, Hassan; Tovey, Mark; Newmark, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780262016643
• ISBN10: 0262016648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-20
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

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 the benefits and risks of such online tools.The contributors offer expert perspectives that range from philanthropy and open access to science and law, addressing reputation systems in theory and practice. Properly designed reputation systems, they argue, have the potential to create a "reputation society," reshaping society for the better by promoting accountability through the mediated judgments of billions of people. Effective design can also steer systems away from the pitfalls of online opinion sharing by motivating truth-telling, protecting personal privacy, and discouraging digital vigilantism.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Trust, Reputation Systems, and the Immune System of Democracy	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Building the Reputation Society	p. xv
Understanding Reputation	p. 1
Designing Reputation Systems for the Social Web	p. 3
Web Reputation Systems and the Real World	p. 13
An Inquiry into Effective Reputation and Rating Systems	p. 25
Regulating Societies	p. 37
The Biology of Reputation	p. 39
Regulating Reputation	p. 51
Less Regulation, More Reputation	p. 63
Amplifying Signals	p. 75
The Role of Reputation Systems in Managing Online Communities	p. 77
Attention Philanthropy: Giving Reputation a Boost	p. 89
Making Use of Reputation Systems in Philanthropy	p. 97
Supporting Science	p. 109
The Measurement and Mismeasurement of Science	p. 111
Usage-Based Reputation Metrics in Science	p. 119
Open Access and Academic Reputation	p. 129
Improving Policy	p. 139
Reputation-Based Governance and Making States "Legible" to Their Citizens	p. 141
Trust It Forward: Tyranny of the Majority or Echo Chambers?	p. 151
Rating in Large-Scale Argumentation Systems	p. 163
The Reputation Society	p. 173
Privacy, Context, and Oversharing: Reputational Challenges in a Web 2.0 World	p. 175
The Future of Reputation Networks	p. 185
"I Hope You Know This Is Going on Your Permanent Record"	p. 195
Contributors	p. 205
Index	p. 213
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