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- Title: Trust in the Digital World: The Return of the Kings of Old (Papers)
- Author : Communications & Strategies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 103 KB
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We live in an age of communication technologies. It should be easier than it used to be to check out strangers and institutions, to test credentials, to authenticate sources, and to place trust with discrimination. But unfortunately many of the new ways of communicating don't offer adequate, let alone easy, ways of doing so. The new information technologies are ideal for spreading reliable information, but they dislocate our ordinary ways of judging one another's claims and deciding where to place our trust. (O'NEILL, 2002) (1). Trust, or its absence, is a current high fashion topic in the social sciences (2). As attention has focused on consent, rather than duress, as the prime factor in social cohesion so the putatively trust eroding threats to social cohesion posed by globalisation, movement of populations and the disruption of culturally, linguistically and historically embedded communicative communities (with the attendant, putative, erosion of the trust that is necessary for us to live socially) have risen in social scientific salience. It is with a certain amount of unease that any scholar will now cite Francis Fukuyama to sustain an argument but his claim that "Now that the question of ideology and institutions has been settled, the preservation and accumulation of social capital will occupy center stage" (FUKUYAMA, 1995: 362) makes the point eloquently. Onora O'NEILL (2005) (3) makes a similar point in reverse, claiming that there is: