Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- 1. Concepts and Backgrounds -- Community and Human Social Nature in Contemporary Society -- Three Aspects of Interpersonal Trust -- The Social Psychology of Trust with Applications in the Internet -- Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for Theoretical-Empirical Internet Research -- 2. The Internet as an Environment for Trust -- Developing Trust on the Internet -- Trust, Reliance and the Internet -- Internet Capital -- Esteem, Identifiability and the Internet -- 3. Reputation and Online Auctions -- Reputation and Internet Auctions: eBay and Beyond -- Trust among Internet Traders -- The Evolution of Trust (worthiness) in the Net -- 4. Groups and Networks -- The Emergence of Trust Networks under Uncertainty - Implications for Internet Interactions -- Local Virtuality in a High-Tech Networked Organization -- How May Virtual Communication Shape Cooperation in a Work Team? -- Trust and Community in Open Source Software Production -- 5. Law and the Internet -- Crime, Law and the Internet -- Internet-Hymn -- Authors