Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy

dc.contributor.authorLight, Ann
dc.contributor.authorMiskelly, Clodagh
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T13:06:07Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T13:06:07Z
dc.date.issued43631
dc.description.abstractThe “sharing economy” has promised more sustainable use of the world’s finite resources, exploiting latency and promoting renting rather than ownership through digital networks. But do the digital brokers that use networks at global scale offer the same care for the planet as more traditional forms of sharing? We contrast the sustainability of managing idle capacity with the merits of collective local agency bred by caring-based sharing in a locality. Drawing on two studies of neighbourhood sharing in London and analysis of the meshing of local sharing initiatives, we ask how ‘relational assets’ form and build up over time in a neighbourhood, and how a platform of platforms might act as local socio-technical infrastructure to sustain alternative economies and different models of trust to those found in the scaling sharing economy . We close by proposing digital networks of support for local solidarity and resourcefulness, showing how CSCW knowledge on coordination and collaboration has a role in achieving these ends.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-019-09352-1
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-019-09352-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3737
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 28
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectCollective local agency
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectLocal
dc.subjectMesh
dc.subjectNetworks
dc.subjectPlace
dc.subjectPlatform
dc.subjectResource management
dc.subjectScale
dc.subjectSharing economy
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectTrust
dc.subjectValues
dc.titlePlatforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economyde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage626
gi.citation.startPage591

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