Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
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Where do we look for reputation? A person's lifelong and distinctive reputational network -- Social communications about specific persons: information flow -- Person bins: assembling information according to specific persons: information storage -- Buzz and bins: the discursive and distributive facets of reputation -- Truth in reputation: accuracy and validity -- The person as agent and resultant of reputation -- The mutual relevance of reputation and personality -- The risks of discourse about other persons: defamation law from the plaintiff and defendant points of view -- Posthumous reputational networks.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This integrative network conception of reputation brings together a wide range of subfields in the social sciences and humanities into a coherent framework. They include biographical studies, cultural history. evolutionary psychology, gossip research, libel law, organizational psychology, personality assessment, publicity and public relations, social cognition, social network analysis. and social representation theory." "The comprehensiveness of the network iinterpretation of reputation spotlights possible new forms of interdisciplinary analysis by showing how scholars and scientists in a broad array of disciplines each have something important to contribute."--Jacket.