The Future Of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, And Privacy On The Internet, Brand new book listed on amazon Options

[Noahswife]

I just discovered a new book at Amazon that I have added to my must read list and thought it might be of interest to others who read or post here or elsewhere at BSDA or on the net.

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solve.

Book Description

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—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.

Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.

Review
Paul M. Schwartz : “A timely, vivid, and illuminating book that will change the way you think about privacy, reputation, and speech on the Internet. Daniel Solove tells a series of fascinating and frightening stories about how blogs, social network sites, and other websites are spreading gossip and rumors about people''s private lives. He offers a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of a series of wide-ranging new problems and develops useful suggestions about what we can do about these challenges.”—Paul M. Schwartz, professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law


Bruce Schneier :
“No one has thought more about the effects of the information age on privacy than Daniel Solove.”—Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World


Jeffrey Rosen :
“As the Internet is erasing the distinction between spoken and written gossip, the future of personal reputation is one of our most vexing social challenges. In this illuminating book, filled with memorable cautionary tales, Daniel Solove incisively analyzes the technological and legal challenges and offers moderate, sensible solutions for navigating the shoals of the blogosphere.”—Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300124988/


I was not certain if I should post this here, in the entertainment section or the cafe so Clay, Di or Calvin please feel free to move this if you think it appropriate.

nw

[YogusBearus]

I was not certain if I should post this here, in the entertainment section or the cafe so Clay, Di or Calvin please feel free to move this if you think it appropriate.

nw

Looks like something worth reading NW. As to your post placement, I can't think of a more appropriate place...

-bear

[Brick Step]

Looks like something worth reading NW. As to your post placement, I can't think of a more appropriate place...

-bear

This book certainly does look like must reading. Thank you Clay, Di or Calvin for moving NW's excellent post to this site.

[Fran]

It seems I remember Danny saying on TV that he was writing such a book! I have been waiting for it to hit the market. He said it was about inuendo and internet gossip within the church.

Anybody know anything about this Daniel Solve?

I just discovered a new book at Amazon that I have added to my must read list and thought it might be of interest to others who read or post here or elsewhere at BSDA or on the net.

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solve.

Book Description

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—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.

Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.

Review
Paul M. Schwartz : “A timely, vivid, and illuminating book that will change the way you think about privacy, reputation, and speech on the Internet. Daniel Solove tells a series of fascinating and frightening stories about how blogs, social network sites, and other websites are spreading gossip and rumors about people''s private lives. He offers a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of a series of wide-ranging new problems and develops useful suggestions about what we can do about these challenges.”—Paul M. Schwartz, professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Bruce Schneier :
“No one has thought more about the effects of the information age on privacy than Daniel Solove.”—Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
Jeffrey Rosen :
“As the Internet is erasing the distinction between spoken and written gossip, the future of personal reputation is one of our most vexing social challenges. In this illuminating book, filled with memorable cautionary tales, Daniel Solove incisively analyzes the technological and legal challenges and offers moderate, sensible solutions for navigating the shoals of the blogosphere.”—Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300124988/
I was not certain if I should post this here, in the entertainment section or the cafe so Clay, Di or Calvin please feel free to move this if you think it appropriate.

nw

[Rosyroi]

This is all I could find about Daniel Solvoe... hope it helps.

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL


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DANIEL J. SOLOVE


Professor Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.

He received his A.B. in English Literature from Washington University, where he was an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, Professor Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize and served as symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Following law school, Professor Solove clerked for The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After practicing law as an associate at the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., Professor Solove began a second clerkship with The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Solove began his law teaching career at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. He joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2004.

Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.

An internationally known expert in privacy law, Professor Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in over 100 articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Professor Solove is the author of five books, including: THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GPOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET (Yale University Press, 2007), UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2008), The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press, 2004) and Information Privacy Law (Aspen, 2006) (with Marc Rotenberg & Paul M. Schwartz), a casebook now in its second edition.

Solove has written over 25 articles and essays, which have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Duke Law Journal, among others.

He has consulted in high-profile privacy law cases, contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and testified before Congress. He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute.

Professor Solove blogs at Concurring Opinions, a blog covering issues of law, culture, and current events.

This post has been edited by Rosyroi: Oct 28 2007, 08:33 PM

[Noahswife]

In my reading last night, I came across the author's website and blog. I also came across where he has provided the first chapter of his book for download. I think it raises some fascinating questions if anyone is interested in discussing them.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1019177

nw

[Panama_Pete]

In my reading last night, I came across the author's website and blog. I also came across where he has provided the first chapter of his book for download. I think it raises some fascinating questions if anyone is interested in discussing them.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1019177

nw

Haven't we all read about "idle tales" before? About women running around telling "all the rest" unsubstantiated rumors, gossip, and inuendo out of school. Before we discuss gossip, do we always recognize it when we see it?

Luke, Chapter 24.

24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
24:3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
24:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
24:6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
24:7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
24:8 And they remembered his words,
24:9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
24:10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
24:11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

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[Noahswife]

Before we discuss gossip, do we always recognize it when we see it?

I think using the word "always" requires a no answer.

PP~

What I found worthy of discussion in the chapter I read was the concept of "shaming" when someone allegedly or even demonstrably has broken a societal norm and what is approrpriate response to that behavior when considering the reach of today's internet.

Any thoughts?

nw

[Panama_Pete]

I think using the word "always" requires a no answer.

PP~

What I found worthy of discussion in the chapter I read was the concept of "shaming" when someone allegedly or even demonstrably has broken a societal norm and what is approrpriate response to that behavior when considering the reach of today's internet.

Any thoughts?

nw

In that case, you would likely find the book Stigma, by Erving Goffman, good reading. Goffman was a noted sociologist and you most likely have an interest in his area of work.

http://www.amazon.com/Stigma-Notes-Managem...y/dp/0671622447

[Noahswife]

In that case, you would likely find the book Stigma, by Erving Goffman, good reading. Goffman was a noted sociologist and you most likely have an interest in his area of work.

http://www.amazon.com/Stigma-Notes-Managem...y/dp/0671622447

PP~

Thanks for recommendation. Although my amazon wish list has more than 1400 books on it I will move this one up. Sure wish I could find an audio version to put on my ipod since at my age my eyes seem to always be tired from too much time on the internet.

The book does remind me of a comment I made several months ago regarding Scott Peck's book, The People of the Lie. If you missed that you can find it and discussion by others much smarter than I am here>> http://www.blacksda.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=197134

This post has been edited by Noahswife: Jan 4 2008, 12:18 PM

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PP~

Thanks for recommendation. Although my amazon wish list has more than 1400 books on it I will move this one up. Sure wish I could find an audio version to put on my ipod since at my age my eyes seem to always be tired from too much time on the internet.

The book does remind me of a comment I made several months ago regarding Scott Peck's book, The People of the Lie. If you missed that you can find it and discussion by others much smarter than I am here>> http://www.blacksda.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=197134

NW,

Another good source for thought on issues similar and intertwined with these issues is a book edited by Richard Holeton, Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. A couple of real good sections are the ones titled Cultural Identity and Cyberspace and Ownership and Sharing of Knowledge.

- FHB

[Fran]

Speaking of books; I just received "Truth Decay, A Call for Accountability & Transparency in the Adventist Church" from AToday. I looks like a good read.

It came with a letter that says at the end of paragraph three.

"Adventist Today also is involved in meticulous study of news stories in the church, such as the travails of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network. ..."

Thee is a chapter that talks about Trust Funds ... imagine that!

[Noahswife]

Speaking of books; I just received "Truth Decay, A Call for Accountability & Transparency in the Adventist Church" from AToday. I looks like a good read.

It came with a letter that says at the end of paragraph three.

"Adventist Today also is involved in meticulous study of news stories in the church, such as the travails of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network. ..."

Thee is a chapter that talks about Trust Funds ... imagine that!

Fran~

You are ahead of me today. For anyone interested in reading the PRIOR/OLD edition of the book online a pdf version is available to download here.

http://www.advmca.org/articles/Truth%20Decay.htm

nw

PS...Thanks Fran for the correction as I did not see (might have missed it) at the website this was the older edition.

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[Fran]

Fran~

You are ahead of me today. For anyone interested in reading the book online a pdf version is available to download here.

http://www.advmca.org/articles/Truth%20Decay.htm

nw

This is not the one I received. I received the new revised edition. It has a newly added 46 pages. It is in those pages that talk about Trust Funds. The pdf is the same book, but it is missing the new material and the revised material. The new one has the new material.

[Johann]

This is not the one I received. I received the new revised edition. It has a newly added 46 pages. It is in those pages that talk about Trust Funds. The pdf is the same book, but it is missing the new material and the revised material. The new one has the new material.

I met the author, received and read the book about two years ago. That must have been the old edition. So much has been reavealed within in the realm of Trust Funds since then. It has been claimed that 3ABN receives most of its money through Trust Funds.