Electronic reputation systems

Paolucci, M., Picascia, S. and Marmo, S. (2009) Electronic reputation systems. In: Murugesan, S. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications. IGI Global: Hershey, PA, pp. 411-429. ISBN 9781605663845 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch023)

Abstract

Reputation is a social control artefact developed by human communities to encourage socially desirable behaviour in absence of a central authority. It is widely employed in online contexts to address a number of dilemmas that the interaction among strangers can raise. This chapter presents a social-cognitive theory as a framework to describe the dynamics of reputation formation and spreading. In Section 2, we examine the technology of reputation as implemented in some popular Web platforms, testing theory predictions about the tendency towards either a rule of courtesy or a rule of prudence in evaluation reporting, and thus trying to better understand the outcomes that each system promotes and inhibits.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Picascia, Dr Stefano
• Authors: Paolucci, M., Picascia, S., and Marmo, S.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > MRC/CSO SPHSU
• Publisher: IGI Global
• ISBN: 9781605663845