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Trevor Pinch has also been doing work on recommender/reviewer systems- see
e.g.
Shay David and Trevor Pinch "Six degrees of reputation: The use and abuse of
online review and recommendation systems"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=857505
 
Lisa

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Lisa Stampnitzky
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and Cooperation (2006-7) Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berkeley, Department of Sociology
 
 

>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:46:15 -0500
> From: Barry Wellman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Reccomender systems, etc.
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> Ulrich, et al.
>
> Hal and Paul wrote their recommender systems article a long time ago,
> when people were more positive and less cynical about manipulation of
> such
> systems.* What's the latest research?
>
> *Note that Hal may have been the only non-cynical economist;-)
>
> Valdis Krebs is right: it's easy to spoof many systems.
>
> The ones I have been wondering about are YouTube, where "favorites"
> always seem to include atonal young teens:
> singing, or stripping or both. I may be naive, but I cannot believe
> that "cutie costume" or "my chemical romance on new year's eve" --
> both favorites at this moment -- really are getting 100s, 1000s, and
> even tens of 1000s of votes.
>
> Copying to the Communication & Info Tech section of the ASA, for their
> interest and input.
> Barry Wellman
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