Digital disappointment in collaborative platforms

A turning point after the incorporation of the Internet

Authors

  • Jorge Herrero García UNED Segovia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v22.6828

Keywords:

Collaborative economy, Digital platforms, Digital disappointment, Social capital, Connectivity

Abstract

The transformation of collaborative economy entities (related to aspects such as mobility or travelling hospitality) from analogical services to online platforms has triggered a series of phenomena, one of which is digital disappointment. This effect does not depend on the different types of users that are part of these platforms, but on the relationship of people with the use of the Internet and with the existence influenced by technological gadgets in their daily experience. I have been able to establish conclusions as significant as the fact that the Internet has spread more and better the postulates of collaboration than the exercise of collaborative practice itself. Or that, despite its cosmopolitan potential, it has also acted more as an obstacle than as a stimulus to the creation and preservation of collaborative networks.

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2022-08-17

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Herrero García, J. (2022). Digital disappointment in collaborative platforms: A turning point after the incorporation of the Internet. Antropología Experimental, 22, 159-170. https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v22.6828