Current deployed reputation systems simply aggregate numerical ratings provided by buyers, but overlook the buyers’ subjectivity difference in evaluating the transactions with a seller. To address this problem, we propose a subjectivity alignment approach for reputation computation (SARC).

Sexual self-perceptions are important aspects of sexuality, which can undergo significant change during adolescence and early adulthood. The purpose of this study was to describe these changes among girls (N = 251; ages 16-25) over one year, and to examine associations of sexual self-perceptions (sexual subjectivity) with age, sexual behavior, and romantic status. Sexual body-esteem, perception...

This article outlines a theory of subjectivity and social consciousness that complements prevalent debates in cultural studies about marginality and subjectivity. The article suggests that we can interpret the constitution of subjectivity sociologically as between the nation-state and global market integration. More broadly, we can think about social processes in global market capitalism throug...

1 In " A brief history of information ethics " , Thomas Froehlich (2004) quickly surveys under several broad categories some of the many issues that constitute information ethics: under and violence in the press; and under intercultural information ethics: digital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet for social, political, cultural and economic development. Many of the debates in inform...

The tenet of subjectivity is that no single interface can adequately describe any object; interfaces to the same object will vary among different applications. Thus, objects with standardized interfaces seem too brittle a concept to meet the demands of a wide variety of applications. Yet, objects with standardized interfaces is a central idea in domain modeling and software generation. Standard...

Risk values are arrived at via the process of risk analysis. In many quarters, this is assumed to be objective, and its results the risk values to be correct. Yet, as will be shown in subsequent sections of this report, all stages of the process involve subjectivity, in some cases to a considerable extent. Always there is reliance on judgement, and, as in all cases in which judgement is called ...

This paper examines circumstances under which subjectivity enhances the effectiveness of inductive reasoning. We consider a game in which Fate chooses a data generating process and agents are characterized by inference rules that may be purely objective (or data-based) or may incorporate subjective considerations. The basic intuition is that agents who invoke no subjective considerations are do...

Violence and Subjectivity is a compilation of essays by social scientists who have carried out their f ieldwork in a broad range of sociocultural milieus. The focus varies considerably, from the portrayal of social violence in the media to the circumcision ritual within the Muslim community in India and its ties to collective violence. What brings these papers together is the authors’ vantage p...

Learner autonomy has been described as the ultimate objective in many language teaching programs since the third quarter of the twentieth century and educators have highlighted the significant role of promoting learner autonomy in the process of language learning and teaching. However, only limited number of studies has been awarded to what leaner autonomy mean to teachers. This study addressed...