Rosamond, Emily. 2019. 'From Reputation Capital to Reputation Warfare'. In: End of the World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extraction. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 21-22 June 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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What happens when the ubiquitous calculation of online reputation leads not to more precise expressions of reputation capital, but to more systemic reputational volatility? This paper contrasts two conceptions of online reputation, which enact opposing attitudes about the relation between reputation and the calculable. An early online reputation paradigm – reputation capital – linked reputation to histories of optimizing private credit; users strove to achieve high scores, performing the presumption that reputation could be consistently measured within relatively stable spheres of value. Yet ubiquitous calculation led not to more precise measurements of reputation, but rather to the increasing volatility ofonline reputation. Thus, a second online reputation paradigm – reputation warfare – has become increasingly prevalent, which indirectly capitalizes on systemic volatility produced by reputation’s ubiquitous online calculation. Steve Bannon’s 2016 Trump campaign strategy, which mobilized trolls, exemplifies the indirect optimization of online reputation, by placing an option on reputational volatility.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 1 March 2019 Accepted 22 June 2019 Completed
Event Location:	Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Date range:	21-22 June 2019
Item ID:	26508
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2019 15:16
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 17:15
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26508

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