Talking Trust At Kiasma

by alex

On Wednesday Eric and I are heading over to Finland to give a talk about online trust at the Pixelache festival held at the Kiasma in Helsinki. Really looking forward to the festival and especially listening to the other presentations at the Architectures for Participation seminar. I´ll be in Helsinki until sunday so shoot me an email if you´d like to meet up for a coffee&chat.

From the PixelAche site:

Architectures for Participation

Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss (SE)
www.trustmojo.com

Trust has long been essential to all collaboration, commerce and the forming of community and society in the offline world. Trustmojo (trustmojo.com) is a research project exploring the nature of interpersonal trust in the increasingly prominent world of novel web-mediated social spaces. The starting point of the project is a study on four california-based Web 2.0 services in which trust takes on vital roles. The study serves as a basis for an analysis that borrows theories from offline sociology in order to better understand how trust forms and transforms online. In this presentation some exciting findings will be exposed and discussed.

Trustmojo is the joint master’s thesis and forthcoming book by Alexander Ljung (alexanderljung.com) and Eric Wahlforss (eric.wahlforss.com) at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (www.kth.se). Aside from writing about trust they’ve also recently started a company in the online music space.

BTW - Our book on trust is coming along nicely and should (fingers crossed) be done and out by the beginning of the summer. Yay!