This paper focuses on the main question whether so- cial media specifically conceived to enable local exchange trading schema can be adopted in different contexts than the western digitized society, where those systems have been considered a feasible alternative to money-based capitalism. We report a qualitative study employing fo- cus groups to study the factors which may affect the adoption of these social media in Bangladesh, a de- veloping country that exhibits characteristics such as strong young unemployment, gender-oriented underem- ployment, aging population, but also a reduced access to the service economy due to the lack of spare time. The benefits of local exchange seem to be particularly fitting the urban and social structure of Bangladesh.

Cabitza, F., Locoro, A., Simone, C., Sultana, T. (2016). Moving western neighborliness to east a study on local exchange in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW (pp.1766-1776). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/2818048.2819971].

Moving western neighborliness to east a study on local exchange in Bangladesh

CABITZA, FEDERICO ANTONIO NICCOLO' AMEDEO
Primo
;
LOCORO, ANGELA
Secondo
;
SIMONE, CARLA
Penultimo
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SULTANA, TUNAZZINA
Ultimo
2016

Abstract

This paper focuses on the main question whether so- cial media specifically conceived to enable local exchange trading schema can be adopted in different contexts than the western digitized society, where those systems have been considered a feasible alternative to money-based capitalism. We report a qualitative study employing fo- cus groups to study the factors which may affect the adoption of these social media in Bangladesh, a de- veloping country that exhibits characteristics such as strong young unemployment, gender-oriented underem- ployment, aging population, but also a reduced access to the service economy due to the lack of spare time. The benefits of local exchange seem to be particularly fitting the urban and social structure of Bangladesh.
paper
Developing countries; Time accounting systems; Time banks; Software; Computer Networks and Communications; Human-Computer Interaction
English
19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
2016
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
9781450335928
2016
27
1766
1776
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Cabitza, F., Locoro, A., Simone, C., Sultana, T. (2016). Moving western neighborliness to east a study on local exchange in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW (pp.1766-1776). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/2818048.2819971].
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