ISBN:
9786611980634
,
9781281980632
,
9780199716203
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XX, 242 S.)
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. UK MyiLibrary 2009 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Online version Reputation
Parallel Title:
Print version Reputation
DDC:
303.3/801
Keywords:
Social perception
;
Public opinion
;
Social networks
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Prestige
;
Soziale Wahrnehmung
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Prestige
Abstract:
The author argues that a network interpretation of reputation advances our understanding of an essential and inescapable feature of social life and integrates many of its varied facets. Reputation is a dispersed phenomenon that is to be found in the beliefs and assertions of an extensive number of other individuals
Description / Table of Contents:
Where do we look for reputation? A person's lifelong and distinctive reputational networkSocial communications about specific persons: information flow -- Person bins: assembling information according to specific persons: information storage -- Buzz and bins: the discursive and distributive facets of reputation -- Truth in reputation: accuracy and validity -- The person as agent and resultant of reputation -- The mutual relevance of reputation and personality -- The risks of discourse about other persons: defamation law from the plaintiff and defendant points of view -- Posthumous reputational networks.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references p. 213 - 230 and index
,
Electronic reproduction
