Comments on "Trust and new communication technologies: vicious circles, virtuous circles, possible futures"

John Weckert

pp. 307-309

in: Mariarosaria Taddeo (ed), Trust in technology, Knowledge, Technology & Policy 23, 2010.

Abstract

These comments claim that a shift has occurred between early discussions of online trust, where the focus was on the possibility of such trust and later ones, such as Ess's, where the concern is more with the influence of the new communication technologies on trust in general. The comments, then, focus on affordance as examined by Ess, arguing that it is, indeed, a central issue in new communications and trust.