The ways in which various groups use affordable Internet-based tools to expand the scope and variety of their members is well documented. We focus on the means they develop for identifying “suitable” members. Drawing on signaling theory, we offer a framework for analyzing recruitment practices in a digital media environment. We demonstrate that despite the differences among groups, a common logic guiding filtering behavior is the search for cost-discriminating signs of trustworthiness, that is, signals attesting to the candidates' characteristics that are too costly for mimics to fake, but affordable for the genuinely trustworthy recruit. Focusing on collective action organizations, we propose a typology of organizations and trace the filtering tactics they develop for identifying members who manifest desired attributes.

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数字时代的集体行动招聘：将信号理论应用于过滤行为

各种团体使用负担得起的基于 Internet 的工具来扩大其成员的范围和多样性的方式已有详细记录。我们专注于他们开发的用于识别“合适”成员的方法。借鉴信号理论，我们提供了一个框架来分析数字媒体环境中的招聘实践。我们证明，尽管群体之间存在差异，但指导过滤行为的一个共同逻辑是寻找可信赖的成本歧视标志，即证明候选人特征的信号对于模仿者来说成本太高而无法伪造，但对于真正的人来说是负担得起的。值得信赖的新兵。以集体行动组织为重点，我们提出了一种组织类型，并追踪他们为识别表现出所需属性的成员而开发的过滤策略。