Open AccessReputation in the Cyberworld
Author(s) -
Michael Eldred
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie333
Subject(s) - reputation , context (archaeology) , computer science , turing , perspective (graphical) , value (mathematics) , epistemology , phenomenon , concatenation (mathematics) , sociology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , social science , history , combinatorics , archaeology , machine learning , programming language
The article explores the socio-ontological foundations of the phenomenon of reputation in the context of today’s ever-encroaching cyberworld. The categories of whoness and value are essential for understanding reputation ontologically. The cyberworld itself has only become historically possible through the Cartesian mathematical cast of being and its digital refinement in the Universal Turing Machine. From one perspective, the cyberworld is an endless concatenation of Turing machines. It is, however, also a matrix in which bit-strings circulate that have a decisive impact on who anybody is held to be by others, i.e. on their reputation. The game of striving to be esteemed as who you are thus assumes a new complexion in the digital era.