Six degress of reputation: The use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems

First Monday

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Shay, David ^a,b,c   Pinch, Trevon ^d,e  

^a Cornell's Science and Technology Studies Department ^*  (United States)

^b Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Sociology ^*

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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