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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in LiveJournal communities - Erika Pearson, First Monday
This paper explores notions and rationales of gift exchange among participants of the social networking site ‘LiveJournal.’ While gift exchanges can be framed as a form of power relations, this paper argues that they also have the potential to function as a way of forming and maintaining social bonds, and of maintaining individual and collective identity within the virtual social space.
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