| Description |
1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index. |
| Contents |
What are reviews? -- Toward a theory of credible rating systems -- Connoisseurial reviews: restaurants -- Procedural reviews: statistical software -- The production of reviews -- Audiences, credibility, and the social construction of reviews -- "Dining is my sport": reception and hierarchies -- Reviews and the status culture. |
| Summary |
Critics, Ratings, and Society is the first comprehensive study of the review as social institution. Its theories and data encompass reviews of all types of products-including the arts (e.g. theater, books, and music) and consumer products (e.g. cars, software, and appliances). According to Blank, the core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. The connoisseurial-procedural distinction describes the production of credibility and its assessment under different types of rating systems. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social choice.
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Social choice. |
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Criticism -- Social aspects.
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Criticism -- Social aspects. |
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Criticism. |
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Consumers -- Attitudes.
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Consumers -- Attitudes. |
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Critics.
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Critics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blank, Grant. Critics, ratings, and society. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2007 (DLC) 2006011575 (OCoLC)67239979 |
| ISBN |
9780742575790 |
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0742575799 |
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0742547027 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742547025 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0742547035 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742547032 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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