Modern communications stay reliable without shared moral views or personal acquaintance.

Evidence

Trust in systems takes the form of faceless commitments, in which faith is sustained in the workings of knowledge of which the lay person is largely ignorant. … Trust in persons involves facework commitments, in which indicators of the integrity of others (within given arenas of action) are sought. … Reembedding refers to processes by means of which faceless commitments are sustained or transformed by facework. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 214 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Every communication medium depends on shared organic conditions among participants; All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline; Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs. (+3 more)

Related

• System trust is faceless while personal trust and reembedding depend on facework. (similarity 0.87)
• Modern communication systems sustain reliability despite lacking shared moral grounding. (similarity 0.85)
• Personal intermediaries are the default route to new trust (similarity 0.84)
• Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations (similarity 0.82)
• In Giddens, systems obtain a ‘face’ at their ‘access points,’ which sustains or transforms ‘faceless commitments’ through the interplay of disembedding and re-embedding. (similarity 0.80)
• Giddens distinguishes ‘facework commitment’ from ‘faceless commitment’ to depict the difference between expert systems and their representatives, with trust located between the two. (similarity 0.79)
• Mechanised communication is the bedrock of modern cultural globalisation (similarity 0.79)
• Preexisting reciprocal interdependence needs no communication and sustains trust tacitly (similarity 0.79)
• Modern society still depends on personal trust despite system complexity (similarity 0.79)
• Mere social presence presupposes trust and expands as trust accumulates (similarity 0.79)
• Modern society needs non-personal trust beyond what individuals provide (similarity 0.79)
• Even committed system insiders need facework to sustain their own internal trust. (similarity 0.78)
• All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline (similarity 0.78)
• Giddens describes how trust in abstract systems develops as ‘faceless commitments,’ yet notes relations of trust are always ambivalent because confidence is needed amid fundamental ignorance of… (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern society needs non-personal trust beyond what individuals provide #expands (0.70)
• Every communication medium depends on shared organic conditions among participants #contradicts (0.60)
• System trust is faceless while personal trust and reembedding depend on facework. #expands (0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 214
• All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline #contradicts (0.55)
• Co-presence can exist without co-localization, a break enabled by tele-technologies. #corroborates (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 946
• Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs. #corroborates (0.50)