"It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting
A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that these are sometimes considered to be gifts, CSCW has largely overlooked explicit digital gifting where people deliberately choose to give digital media as gifts. We present an interview study that syste...
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| author | Kwon, Hyosun Koleva, Boriana Schnädelbach, Holger Benford, Steve |
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| description | A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that these are sometimes considered to be gifts, CSCW has largely overlooked explicit digital gifting where people deliberately choose to give digital media as gifts. We present an interview study that systematically analyzes the nature of digital gifting in comparison to conventional physical gifting. A five-stage gift exchange model, synthesized from the literature, frames this study. Findings reveal that there are distinctive gaps in people’s engagement with the digital gifting process compared to physical gifting. Participants’ accounts show how digital gifts often involve less labor, are sometimes not perceived as gifts by the recipient and are rarely reflected on and reciprocated. We conclude by drawing out design implications for digital gifting services and rituals. |
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| spelling | nottingham-380962020-05-04T18:32:35Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38096/ "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting Kwon, Hyosun Koleva, Boriana Schnädelbach, Holger Benford, Steve A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that these are sometimes considered to be gifts, CSCW has largely overlooked explicit digital gifting where people deliberately choose to give digital media as gifts. We present an interview study that systematically analyzes the nature of digital gifting in comparison to conventional physical gifting. A five-stage gift exchange model, synthesized from the literature, frames this study. Findings reveal that there are distinctive gaps in people’s engagement with the digital gifting process compared to physical gifting. Participants’ accounts show how digital gifts often involve less labor, are sometimes not perceived as gifts by the recipient and are rarely reflected on and reciprocated. We conclude by drawing out design implications for digital gifting services and rituals. 2017-03-01 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Kwon, Hyosun, Koleva, Boriana, Schnädelbach, Holger and Benford, Steve (2017) "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting. In: 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), 25 Feb-01 Mar 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA. Digital gift Framework Gift exchange Interaction design Rituals Gifting process http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2998181.2998225 |
| spellingShingle | Digital gift Framework Gift exchange Interaction design Rituals Gifting process Kwon, Hyosun Koleva, Boriana Schnädelbach, Holger Benford, Steve "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title | "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title_full | "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title_fullStr | "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title_full_unstemmed | "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title_short | "It's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| title_sort | "it's not yet a gift": understanding digital gifting |
| topic | Digital gift Framework Gift exchange Interaction design Rituals Gifting process |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38096/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38096/ |