Reputation : a network interpretation / Kenneth H. Craik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craik, Kenneth H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social perception.

Public opinion.

Social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Reputations Within Networks; Part I: Reputational Networks; 1 Where Do We Look for Reputation? A Person's Lifelong and Distinctive Reputational Network; 2 Social Communications About Specific Persons: Information Flow; 3 Person Bins-Assembling Information According to Specific Persons: Information Storage; 4 Buzz and Bins: The Discursive and Distributive Facets of Reputation; 5 Truth in Reputation: Accuracy and Validity; Part II: Reputation and the Person; 6 The Person as Agent and Resultant of Reputation; 7 The Mutual Relevance of Reputation and Personality

8 The Risks of Discourse About Other Persons: Defamation Law from the Plaintiff and Defendant Points of View9 Posthumous Reputational Networks; Conclusion: Prospects for Reputational Analysis; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045017-7

0-19-971620-X

1-281-98063-3

9786611980634

OCLC:

299380638