Abstract: Method and system is disclosed which supports multi-party collaborative content creation and management using authorship controls that allow collaborators to propose in-context contributions; the author or authors to efficiently act on contributions; and multiple parties to view the latest electronic content over the Internet without installing any applications other than a web browser. The pending and historical contributions or collaborative contents may be tagged to contributor-selected sections in any current version of the document. If a pending contribution is accepted by the author, the changes proposed in the accepted contribution are merged into the document to create an updated version of the document. A reputation framework that governs how decisions on contributions impact individual reputations of contributors and authors is also disclosed. Taken together, an inverted social network is created centred around content, where users are profiled in relation to their history of content collaboration.