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The future of reputation : gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet

Author: Daniel J Solove
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives - often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Solove, Daniel J., 1972-
Future of reputation.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608021126
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel J Solove
ISBN: 9780300124989 0300124988 9780300144222 0300144229
OCLC Number: 122291821
Description: viii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How the free flow of information liberates and constrains us --
Gossip and the virtues of knowing less --
Shaming and the digital scarlet letter --
The role of law --
Free speech, anonymity, and accountability --
Privacy in an overexposed world.
Responsibility: Daniel J. Solove.
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Including the examples of gossip, slander, and rumour on the Internet, this book explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy. It offers an account of  Read more...

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"Beneath Solove''s legal suggestions rests a keen insight about the extent to which the Internet changes basic questions about privacy."--Mark Williams, "MIT''s Technology Review" Read more...

 
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Good perspective on the impact others have on our reputation

by bobrobboy (WorldCat user published 2008-08-14) Good Permalink

This book describes a number of situations that impact our individual ability to control what other say or think about us. The first situation is a bit extreme and involved but clearly illustrates how a mob mentality could grow to work woe on a person's reputation...and how that can play out in real...
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