Add to ORKGThis paper is concerned with gifting: giving not motivated by a direct, immediate, or obvious benefit. We analyze a popular technology used for gifting: the BitTorrent file–sharing system. We determine features associated with high levels of gifting and suggest changes to the protocol and to the design of associated BitTorrent Web sites to promote it. We then extend our conclusions and suggestions to gifting technologies in general
The phenomenon of gift-giving was primarily studied by anthropology and it was associated with the p...
The social foundations of the platform economy stand at the forefront of academic research in econom...
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peer-to-peer, gifting, communities This paper is concerned with gifting: giving not motivated by a d...
File–sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with f...
File-sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with ...
This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue: Music and the Internet, published in July ...
Gift giving has far deeper societal, sociological, and psychological implications than people are ge...
The paper examines how digital technology mediates the behaviour of consumers in three online system...
Gift giving has far deeper societal, sociological, and psychological implications than people are ge...
A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that th...
The Internet today is a mix of the nfree and the feeo, though it still remains in part a gift econom...
A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that th...
Purpose – The present article explores a relatively new way for consumers to dispose of items they n...
© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Giving gifts is a fundamental part of human relatio...
The phenomenon of gift-giving was primarily studied by anthropology and it was associated with the p...
The social foundations of the platform economy stand at the forefront of academic research in econom...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and ...
peer-to-peer, gifting, communities This paper is concerned with gifting: giving not motivated by a d...
File–sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with f...
File-sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with ...
This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue: Music and the Internet, published in July ...
Gift giving has far deeper societal, sociological, and psychological implications than people are ge...
The paper examines how digital technology mediates the behaviour of consumers in three online system...
Gift giving has far deeper societal, sociological, and psychological implications than people are ge...
A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that th...
The Internet today is a mix of the nfree and the feeo, though it still remains in part a gift econom...
A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that th...
Purpose – The present article explores a relatively new way for consumers to dispose of items they n...
© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Giving gifts is a fundamental part of human relatio...
The phenomenon of gift-giving was primarily studied by anthropology and it was associated with the p...
The social foundations of the platform economy stand at the forefront of academic research in econom...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and ...