Toward trust as result. A transdisciplinary research agenda for the 'Future internet'

Trust has emerged as one of the key challenges for the Future of the Internet and as a key theme of European research. We are convinced that a transdisciplinary research agenda - that we define as Trust as Result - shared by Sociology and Computer Science, is of paramount importance for devising sustainable trust solutions for the (Future) Internet stakeholders. The scope of this paper is to present some aspects we consider important for building such an agenda. We distinguish our agenda by comparison with one of the current mainstream interdisciplinary approaches to trust, that of Trust Modelling which assumes that trust is an input in the design of trustworthy ICTs. We propose a different approach based on the concept of Assemblage, as proposed by DeLanda, and focus on how we can create trust as the result of the design and use process