Gabriel Rossman
Biographic Data
| ID | 254083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Rossman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossman |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3556-0601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange
When people want to conduct a transaction, but doing so would be morally disreputable, they can obfuscate the fact that they are engaging in an exchange while still arranging for a set of transfers that are effectively equivalent to an exchange. Obfuscation through structures such as gift-giving and brokerage is pervasive across a wide range of disreputable exchanges, such as bribery and sex work. In this article, we develop a theoretical account…
Back to the Future
It's Only Wrong If It's Transactional: Moral Perceptions of Obfuscated Exchange
A wide class of economic exchanges, such as bribery and compensated adoption, are considered morally disreputable precisely because they are seen as economic exchanges. However, parties to these exchanges can structurally obfuscate them by arranging the transfers so as to obscure that a disreputable exchange is occurring at all. In this article, we propose that four obfuscation structures-bundling, brokerage, gift exchange, and pawning-will decre…
Glory and Gore
Who’s the most important character in the Iliad? That depends. Using the poem, Rossman illustrates how to understand related but conceptually distinct concepts through social network analysis
The instability of omnivorous cultural taste over time
The Diffusion of the Legitimate and the Diffusion of Legitimacy
This article models the implications of innovations being nested within categories. In effect, social actors assess the legitimacy of innovations vis-à-vis conformity to categories such that a sufficiently legitimate innovation may be adopted without direct reference to the behavior of peers. However, when innovations lack categorical legitimacy, actors default to proximately peer-oriented heuristics such as information cascades
Close, But No Cigar: The Bimodal Rewards to Prize-Seeking
This article examines the economic effects of prizes with implications for the diversity of market positions, especially in cultural fields. Many prizes have three notable features that together yield an emergent reward structure: (1) consumers treat prizes as judgment devices when making purchase decisions, (2) prizes introduce sharp discontinuities between winners and also-rans, and (3) appealing to prize juries requires costly sacrifices of ma…
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange
This article develops a model of how the structure of exchange can manage such disreputable exchanges as the commensuration of sacred for profane. Whereas existing research discusses the rhetorical reframing of exchange, I highlight structures that obfuscate whether an exchange is occurring and thereby mitigate exchange taboos. I identify three such exchange structures: bundling, brokerage, and gift exchange. Bundling uses cross-subsidization acr…
Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation
I'd Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality
This article uses Academy Award nominations for acting to explore how artistic achievement is situated within a collaborative context. Assessment of individual effort is particularly difficult in film because quality is not transparent, but the project-based nature of the field allows us to observe individuals in multiple collaborative contexts. We address these issues with analyses of the top-10 credited roles from films released in theaters bet…
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing
Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio
Diffusion curve analysis can estimate whether an innovation spreads endogenously (indicated by a characteristic “s-curve”) or exogenously (indicated by a characteristic negative exponential curve). Current techniques for pooling information across multiple innovations require a two-stage analysis. In this paper, we develop multilevel diffusion curve analysis, which is statistically more efficient and allows for more flexible specifications than d…
Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange
This article develops a model of how the structure of exchange can manage such disreputable exchanges as the commensuration of sacred for profane. Whereas existing research discusses the rhetorical reframing of exchange, I highlight structures that obfuscate whether an exchange is occurring and thereby mitigate exchange taboos. I identify three such exchange structures: bundling, brokerage, and gift exchange. Bundling uses cross-subsidization acr…
It's Only Wrong If It's Transactional: Moral Perceptions of Obfuscated Exchange
A wide class of economic exchanges, such as bribery and compensated adoption, are considered morally disreputable precisely because they are seen as economic exchanges. However, parties to these exchanges can structurally obfuscate them by arranging the transfers so as to obscure that a disreputable exchange is occurring at all. In this article, we propose that four obfuscation structures-bundling, brokerage, gift exchange, and pawning-will decre…
I'd Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality
This article uses Academy Award nominations for acting to explore how artistic achievement is situated within a collaborative context. Assessment of individual effort is particularly difficult in film because quality is not transparent, but the project-based nature of the field allows us to observe individuals in multiple collaborative contexts. We address these issues with analyses of the top-10 credited roles from films released in theaters bet…
Close, But No Cigar: The Bimodal Rewards to Prize-Seeking
This article examines the economic effects of prizes with implications for the diversity of market positions, especially in cultural fields. Many prizes have three notable features that together yield an emergent reward structure: (1) consumers treat prizes as judgment devices when making purchase decisions, (2) prizes introduce sharp discontinuities between winners and also-rans, and (3) appealing to prize juries requires costly sacrifices of ma…
The instability of omnivorous cultural taste over time
Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio
Diffusion curve analysis can estimate whether an innovation spreads endogenously (indicated by a characteristic “s-curve”) or exogenously (indicated by a characteristic negative exponential curve). Current techniques for pooling information across multiple innovations require a two-stage analysis. In this paper, we develop multilevel diffusion curve analysis, which is statistically more efficient and allows for more flexible specifications than d…
The Diffusion of the Legitimate and the Diffusion of Legitimacy
This article models the implications of innovations being nested within categories. In effect, social actors assess the legitimacy of innovations vis-à-vis conformity to categories such that a sufficiently legitimate innovation may be adopted without direct reference to the behavior of peers. However, when innovations lack categorical legitimacy, actors default to proximately peer-oriented heuristics such as information cascades
Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange
When people want to conduct a transaction, but doing so would be morally disreputable, they can obfuscate the fact that they are engaging in an exchange while still arranging for a set of transfers that are effectively equivalent to an exchange. Obfuscation through structures such as gift-giving and brokerage is pervasive across a wide range of disreputable exchanges, such as bribery and sex work. In this article, we develop a theoretical account…
Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio
Diffusion curve analysis can estimate whether an innovation spreads endogenously (indicated by a characteristic “s-curve”) or exogenously (indicated by a characteristic negative exponential curve). Current techniques for pooling information across multiple innovations require a two-stage analysis. In this paper, we develop multilevel diffusion curve analysis, which is statistically more efficient and allows for more flexible specifications than d…
I'd Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality
This article uses Academy Award nominations for acting to explore how artistic achievement is situated within a collaborative context. Assessment of individual effort is particularly difficult in film because quality is not transparent, but the project-based nature of the field allows us to observe individuals in multiple collaborative contexts. We address these issues with analyses of the top-10 credited roles from films released in theaters bet…
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing
Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation
The Diffusion of the Legitimate and the Diffusion of Legitimacy
This article models the implications of innovations being nested within categories. In effect, social actors assess the legitimacy of innovations vis-à-vis conformity to categories such that a sufficiently legitimate innovation may be adopted without direct reference to the behavior of peers. However, when innovations lack categorical legitimacy, actors default to proximately peer-oriented heuristics such as information cascades
Close, But No Cigar: The Bimodal Rewards to Prize-Seeking
This article examines the economic effects of prizes with implications for the diversity of market positions, especially in cultural fields. Many prizes have three notable features that together yield an emergent reward structure: (1) consumers treat prizes as judgment devices when making purchase decisions, (2) prizes introduce sharp discontinuities between winners and also-rans, and (3) appealing to prize juries requires costly sacrifices of ma…
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange
This article develops a model of how the structure of exchange can manage such disreputable exchanges as the commensuration of sacred for profane. Whereas existing research discusses the rhetorical reframing of exchange, I highlight structures that obfuscate whether an exchange is occurring and thereby mitigate exchange taboos. I identify three such exchange structures: bundling, brokerage, and gift exchange. Bundling uses cross-subsidization acr…
The instability of omnivorous cultural taste over time
Glory and Gore
Who’s the most important character in the Iliad? That depends. Using the poem, Rossman illustrates how to understand related but conceptually distinct concepts through social network analysis
It's Only Wrong If It's Transactional: Moral Perceptions of Obfuscated Exchange
A wide class of economic exchanges, such as bribery and compensated adoption, are considered morally disreputable precisely because they are seen as economic exchanges. However, parties to these exchanges can structurally obfuscate them by arranging the transfers so as to obscure that a disreputable exchange is occurring at all. In this article, we propose that four obfuscation structures-bundling, brokerage, gift exchange, and pawning-will decre…
Back to the Future
Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange
When people want to conduct a transaction, but doing so would be morally disreputable, they can obfuscate the fact that they are engaging in an exchange while still arranging for a set of transfers that are effectively equivalent to an exchange. Obfuscation through structures such as gift-giving and brokerage is pervasive across a wide range of disreputable exchanges, such as bribery and sex work. In this article, we develop a theoretical account…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)