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Author Nicholas A. John
Title The Social Logics of Sharing
Web 2.0
Concepts and Sharing
terms Sharing economies: those in which money or the ability to make it is
not a relevant factor in motivating participation.
The development of the word ‘sharing’ and the deployment in 3
spheres: in web 2.0: the constitutive activity is sharing. Contemporary
social logics of sharing. From sharing as active distribution, as having
something in common, as an act of communication, now the notion of
sharing in social networks is metaphorical. Sharing economies: of
production = based on people sharing what they have with other people,
goods are shared by all. The production is a collaborative work and the
Main ideas
final product is available for free. Of consumption= goods are shared
between more people. Can be sharing personal property (eg airbnb) or a
third party owns something for the only aim of sharing it (eg car2go).
Sharing economies always existed, now it is digital. Sharing in
interpersonal relationships: the sharing of emotions, ideas, feelings is
the constitutive activity of contemporary intimate relationships. Sharing
as caring, shift between the public and the private.
Sharing is a good action that is part of the human nature. The above-
Author’s
mentioned phenomenons are not categorically new, the change is that
position
now they have been rebranded as ‘sharing’.