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Processes of proliferation: impact beyond scaling in sharing and collaborative economies
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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:57 authored by Airi Lampinen, Ann LightAnn Light, Chiara Rossitto, Anton Fedosov, Chiara Bassetti, Aniko Bernat, Penny Travlou, Gabriela AvramWhile scalability and growth are key concerns for mainstream, venture-backed digital platforms, local and location-oriented collaborative economies are diverse in their approaches to evolving and achieving social change. Their aims and tactics differ when it comes to broadening their activities across contexts, spreading their concept, or seeking to make a bigger impact by promoting co-operation. This paper draws on three pairs of European, community-centred initiatives which reveal alternative views on scale, growth, and impact. We argue thatproliferation -- a concept that emphasises how something gets started and then travels in perhaps unexpected ways -- offers an alternative toscaling, which we understand as the use of digital networks in a monocultural way to capture an ever-growing number of participants. Considering proliferation is, thus, a way to reorient and enrich discussions on impact, ambitions, modes of organising, and the use of collaborative technologies. In illustrating how these aspects relate inprocesses of proliferation, we offer CSCW an alternative vision of technology use and development that can help us make sense of the impact of sharing and collaborative economies, and design socio-technical infrastructures to support their flourishing.
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionISSN
2573-0142Publisher
ACMExternal DOI
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GROUPVolume
6Page range
1-22Article number
a41Event name
ACM International Conference on Supporting Group WorkEvent location
Sanibel Island, Florida, USAEvent type
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January 23-26, 2022Department affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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2021-11-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-11-16First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-11-15Usage metrics
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