Digitalization has motivated romance novelists to move from traditional to self-publishing
online. However, engagement with flexible and responsive, yet precarious and biased …

This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative
economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific …

This paper illustrates the multifaceted aspects of caring practices, and the ways they are
entangled with the organizing of community-driven initiatives. Highlighting the situated inter …

While scalability and growth are key concerns for mainstream, venture-backed digital
platforms, local and location-oriented collaborative economies are diverse in their …

Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is an interdisciplinary research area
concerned with developing computing technologies that facilitate, mediate, or regulate …

This paper addresses the sociotechnical challenges of organising queuing at large scale,
face-to-face, food-sharing events. The authors have partnered with a grassroots food …

Technological development and adoption are characterized by historical waves, reflecting
both technical advancements and social transformations in mutually constitutive relation …

Non-profit approaches in the sharing economy are proliferating in everyday life (eg, tool
libraries, food sharing collectives). They focus on promoting social, economic, and …

Based on an empirical study of the citizen science initiative Biodiversity Galiano and the
biodiversity data collection platform iNaturalist, this paper presents an analysis of the …

This chapter summarises the theoretical and empirical analyses presented in the edited
collection of papers 'The Sharing Economy in Europe: Developments, Practices, and …