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Social Citizen As Guest Worker: A Comment On The Changing Identities Of Immigrants And The Working Poor, Frank W. Munger
Social Citizen As Guest Worker: A Comment On The Changing Identities Of Immigrants And The Working Poor, Frank W. Munger
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Trademark Law And The Social Construction Of Trust: Creating The Legal Framework For Online Identity, Beth Simone Noveck
Trademark Law And The Social Construction Of Trust: Creating The Legal Framework For Online Identity, Beth Simone Noveck
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Trust is the foundation of society for without trust, we cannot
cooperate. Trust, in turn, depends upon secure, reliable, and persistent
identity. Cyberspace is thought to challenge our ability to build trust
because the medium undermines the connection between online
pseudonym and offline identity. We have no assurances of who stands
behind an online avatar; it may be one person, it may be more, it may be a
computer. The legal debate to date has focused exclusively on the question
of how to maintain real world identity in cyberspace. But new "social
software" technology that enables communities from eBay to …