Exchanges across the web: I give you, you give me

Authors

  • Mª Concepción Gómez Rodríguez Universidad de León (España)

Abstract

It is approximately from the mid- 1990s that anthropological research becomes interested in the Internet. Even though the Internet comprises a wide range of services, it is often identified with one of its applications, the World Wide Web. This enormous virtual space which is in permanent transformation holds firm through the exchange of information of a very different nature; the idea of cooperation, the real or apparent need to share that information, is what keeps that new and complex reality going. Anthropology deals with the study of this dynamics
that takes place on the cyberspace through a young subdiscipline: cyberethnography. However, the relevance of such anthropological concepts as “gift” or “reciprocity” shows how this dynamics is not so different from those developed in the real world.

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Published

2014-11-05

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How to Cite

Gómez Rodríguez, M. C. (2014). Exchanges across the web: I give you, you give me. Antropología Experimental, 13. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1811