Schedule & Panels

8:00 am: Registration Opens
9:00 – 10:30am: Panel I: Making your name online!
10:30 – 11:00am: Break
11:00 – 12:30pm: Panel II: Privacy and Reputational Protection
12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm: Panel III: Reputational Quality and Information Quality
3:00 – 3:30pm: Break
3:30 – 5:00pm: Panel IV: Ownership of Cyber-Reputation
5:00pm: Symposium ends

Panel I: Making your name online! (transcript)

Modertor:  Jack Balkin
Panelists: Michel Bauwens, Rishab A. Ghosh, Auren Hofman, Hassan Masum, Beth Noveck

This panel will discuss the shifts in the reputation economy that we are witnessing, largely the transition from accreditation to participatory, community-based modes of reputation management. Some of the questions the panel will address:

• What are the new norms for cyber-reputation?
• How do these depart from offline models?
• How can reputation in one online system be transported to another?
• How do SNS and reputation connect?
• How do you cash out
• How to bootstrap
• Can you sell one reputation
• Phase transition of reputation
  

top

Panel II: Privacy and Reputational Protection (transcript)

Moderator: Michael Zimmer  
Panelists: Alessandro Acquisti, Danielle Citron, William McGeveran, Daniel Solove, Jonathan Zittrain

Cyber-reputation management is based on transactions in information that is often sensitive and is always contextual.  This brings up many questions about the need to protect one’s privacy and reputation within and outside said system. Some of the questions the panel will address:

• How is participation in cyber-reputation system related to defamation? How is it related to free speech?
• Spillage effect - what happens when reputation from within the system that spills over into different offline activities and relationships like the political process, job applications, or school admissions?
• What happens when your second life meets your first?
• How do you opt out? Can you?
• Issues of identity theft?
• Requiring divulgence of real name or other personal data
• Pending legislation on S495 - data security and privacy (Leahy's office)
• Legal protections for anonymity
• cryptorgraphy and reputation
• reputation and defamation 

top

Panel III: Reputational Quality and Information Quality (transcript)

Moderator: Laura Forlano
Panelists: Urs Gasser, Ashish Goel, Darko Kirovski, Mari Kuraishi, Vipul Ved Prakash

Evidently, unlike traditional reputation mechanisms that relied on small group acquaintances and formal accreditation mechanisms, the cyber-reputation economy is heavily mediated by technology. This raises the risk of breaking the delicate checks and balances that are necessary for the system to ensure quality of both the informational outcomes and the participants reputation. This panel will try to highlight the connections between the way the new systems are built, and the outcome they produce. Some of the questions the panel will address:

• How can we assure quality in online reputation economies?
• What is he connection between the system design and the quality information?
• How good are the alternative accreditation mechanisms and how easy are they to hijack?
• Employment discrimination

top

Panel IV: Ownership of Cyber-Reputation (transcript)

Moderator: Eddan Katz
Panelists: John Clippinger, Eric Goldman, Bob Sutor, Mozelle Thompson, Rebecca Tushnet

The data and information that are collected in online reputation system are both valuable and powerful. The ability to control this information, store it, process it, access it, and transport it are crucial to the maintenance of the reputation economy. This panel will address the important set of questions that concern the ownership of this information. Some questions the panel will address:

top