Reading Trust and Distrust in Shared Documents:
Film Professionals Review Film Reviews
Natasha Dwyer1, Tom Clark2, and
Piotr Cofta3
1Victoria University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
natasha.dwyer@vu.edu.au
*Corresponding Author: Victoria University, Ballarat Road, Footscray,
Victoria, Australia
(Phone: +61
404843106)
2Victoria University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
tom.clark@vu.edu.au
3British Telecom
Martlesham Heath, U.K.
piotr@bt.com
Abstract
This research explores how one group of users perceives
trustworthiness and reliability, as a form of
professional judgment, when viewing text based
information that is shared and distributed publically.
In particular, this research explores how trust works in
the domain of film exhibition and curating.
A group of film professionals were studied to explore how
they navigate published information that
the film industry produces. The trust at stake in this
context seems to be the credibility and the authenticity
of the information. Participants were sensitive to the
interplay between what could be described
as ¡®factual material¡¯ and its representation by different
writers. Each participant had developed somewhat
different heuristics over the span of their professional
practice. We find that once more basic
strategies to inform trust are considered, the design of
trust becomes complex and contradictory.
This finding can be extrapolated to other groups who
share documents professionally.
Keywords: Trustworthiness, Trust-enablement and
Performing Trust
Journal
of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), 1(4): 110-119, November 2011 [pdf]