Rating Professors Online

Pamela Leong is Associate Professor of Sociology at Salem State University, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Technology, Social Media, and Consumer Expectations.- 3. Body Politics in Cyberspace: When the Physical Body of the Subject Under Review Matters in Online Evaluations.- 4. Manifestations of Sex and Gender on Web-Based Platforms.- 5. Discrimination Based on Nationality, Race, and Ethnicity on Web-Based Platforms.- 6. Student Evaluations Gone Wild: Rants and the Mixed Bag of Nuts.- 7. Manifestations of "the Ideal" in Cyberspace.- 8. Culture, Anonymity, and Consumer Expectations: The Challenges of Modern Rating Systems in the Age of Social Media.