Not exact matches
Where Kickstarter uses the web to
connect like - minded niche consumers and capitalizes on existing
social networks for marketing, other examples of the sharing
economy follow a more traditional path.
With a strong and inclusive local
economy people feel more
connected to one another, increasing
social responsibility and
social capital.
Christine is the founder of Vendedy, a
social network
connecting global travelers to street markets with the aim of digitizing a $ 10 trillion dollar black
economy by centralizing the world's 200,000 street markets.
This new
economy currently revolves around
social and mobile, but those may be only the latest manifestations of a global,
connected world careening ahead at great velocity.
He learned from the
social sciences how to «read» the environment of Faith Church, all the way from discovering the
social networks and patterns in downtown Metro City to learning how such configurations
connect with the wars, poverty, political oppression, and inflationary
economies that mark the globe.
Each of the artists works with an
economy of means to test the limits of performance — for the performer, the viewer, and the participant — provoking us to question how our own positions, whether still or in motion,
connect to larger
social and political concerns.
The type of data increasingly being used in this new
economy is not the demographic data of the past, such as names and and demographic information, but are rather a raw flood of other unstructured streams of web traffic and clicks, photos videos from
social media, geolocation from apps or mobile use, and a variety of other information from
connected devices.