Towards a Sociological View of Trust in Computer Science

There is a consensus among researchers across many disciplines that trust is one of the most pressing issues domains with online-participants involvement face. A lack of trust, e.g., manifests itself in many e-Commerce domain phenomena, such as canceled on-line shop purchases, decreasing number of e -auction participants due to auction fraud, and virtual community establishment. Because trust is both a commonplace and a somewhat

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