Trust, Computing, and Society

Author:   Richard H. R. Harper
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107038479


Pages:   373
Publication Date:   28 February 2014
Format:   Hardback
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The internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This fascinating set of essays explores the question of trust in computing from technical, socio-philosophical, and design perspectives. Why has the identity of the human user been taken for granted in the design of the internet? What difficulties ensue when it is understood that security systems can never be perfect? What role does trust have in society in general? How is trust to be understood when trying to describe activities as part of a user requirement program? What questions of trust arise in a time when data analytics are meant to offer new insights into user behavior and when users are confronted with different sorts of digital entities? These questions and their answers are of paramount interest to computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers and designers confronting the problem of trust.

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Author:   Richard H. R. Harper
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781107038479


ISBN 10:   1107038472
Pages:   373
Publication Date:   28 February 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction and overview Richard Harper; Part I. The Topography of Trust and Computing: 2. The role of trust in cyberspace David Clark; 3. The new face of the internet Thomas Karagiannis; 4. Trust as a methodological tool in security engineering George Danezis; Part II. Conceptual Points of View: 5. Computing and the search for trust Tom Simpson; 6. The worry about trust Olli Lagerspetz; 7. The inescapability of trust Bob Anderson and Wes Sharrock; 8. Trust in interpersonal interaction and cloud computing Rod Watson; 9. Trust, social identity, and computation Charles Ess; Part III. Trust in Design: 10. Design for trusted and trustworthy services M. Angela Sasse and Iacovos Kirlappos; 11. Dialogues: trust in design Richard Banks; 12. Trusting oneself Richard Harper and William Odom; 13. Reflections on trust, computing and society Richard Harper; Bibliography.

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Richard Harper is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and co-manages the Socio-Digital Systems Group. His tenth book, Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload, was named Book of the Year (2011) by the Association of Internet Researchers. His prior books include the IEEE award-winning The Myth of the Paperless Office, co-authored with Abi Sellen, and Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology and Organisational Action.

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