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Sharing Versus Pseudo-Sharing in Web 2.0
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The Internet has opened up a new era in sharing. There has also been an explosion of studies and writings about sharing via the Internet. This includes a series of books, articles, and web discussions on the topic. However, many of these apparent cases of sharing are better characterized as pseudo-sharing — commodity exchanges wrapped in a vocabulary of sharing. The present paper reviews subsequent research and theorizing as well as controversies that have emerged surrounding sharing and what is best regarded as pseudo-sharing — a wolf-insheep’s-clothing phenomenon whereby commodity exchange and potential exploitation of consumer co-creators present themselves in the guise of sharing. The paper begins with a pair of vignettes that highlight some of the contested meanings of sharing. By detailing four types of pseudo-sharing and four types of sharing that are specifically enabled or enhanced by Internet technologies, the paper argues that pseudo-sharing is distinguished by the presence of profit motives, the absence of feelings of community, and expectations of reciprocity. It concludes with a discussion of theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of pseudo-sharing and offer suggestions for future research.
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BackgroundBlockchains and the disruption of the sharing economy value chains
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Sharing and social media: The decline of a keyword?
John, N. A. (2022) · New Media & Society · doi:10.1177/14614448221078603 · Cited by 20
“This interest revolved around the so-called “sharing economy,” with consumption scholar Russell Belk (2010, 2014b) leading a research agenda focused on the spread of sharing, and arguing (Belk, 2014a), with others (Eckhardt and Bardhi, 2015; Morell, 2011), that whatever is happening on Airbnb, for…”
BackgroundInfluentialMapping the Sharing Economy in China
Чан, Л., Chan, R. K. H., Wang, M., & Yang, Z. (2020) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su12166333 · Cited by 26
Disruptive network innovation in free guided tours
Meged, J. W., & Zillinger, M. (2018) · Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism · doi:10.1080/15022250.2018.1497317 · Cited by 26
“As such reviews become valuable assets, they will contribute to innovation (Belk, 2014; Dregde & Gyimóthy, 2015).”
BackgroundCollaborative consumption, a buzzword that has gone conceptual: Three shades of the sharing economy
Ertz, M. (2020) · Oikonomics · doi:10.7238/o.n14.2011 · Cited by 26
Participation in the Sharing Economy: European PerspectivesPreprint
Andreotti, A., Anselmi, G., Eichhorn, T., Hoffmann, C. P., JJrss, S., & Micheli, M. (2017) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3046550 · Cited by 26
Bücker, C., Pantel, J., Geissdoerfer, M., Bhattacharjya, J., & Kumar, M. (2025) · R and D Management · doi:10.1111/radm.12762 · Cited by 45
“This builds on earlier findings by Belk (2014), Tunn et al. (2021), and Sabbatini et al. (2023).”
Adoption of homesharing platforms: a cross-cultural study
Muñoz‐Leiva, F., Mayo-Muñoz, X., & de la Hoz-Correa, A. (2018) · Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights · doi:10.1108/jhti-01-2018-0007 · Cited by 25
Barcelona’s peer-to-peer tourist accommodation market in turbulent times
Benítez-Aurioles, B. (2019) · International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management · doi:10.1108/ijchm-01-2019-0090 · Cited by 25
Geographical dimensions of airbnb in mountain areas: The case of Andorra
Domènech, A., & Zoğal, V. (2020) · Journal of Rural Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.051 · Cited by 30
Sharing Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trends and Research Agenda
Netto, C. D. O., & Tello‐Gamarra, J. (2020) · Journal of technology management & innovation · doi:10.4067/s0718-27242020000200041 · Cited by 28
“Concerning the act of sharing and its socio-marketing implications, studies that focus on the roots of sharing platforms as conceived by Belk (2014b) may lead these topics towards a di erent direction than they seem to be currently taking (towards a pro t-oriented institutionalism).”
BackgroundInfluentialProsumer: A new approach to conceptualisation
Ertz, M., Maravilla, J. M. B., & Cao, X. (2025) · Journal of Innovation & Knowledge · doi:10.1016/j.jik.2025.100653 · Cited by 24
Woo, H., Shin, D., Kim, N., Tong, Z., & Kwon, S. (2024) · Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services · doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103614 · Cited by 21
Working Within the Collaborative Tourist Economy: The Complex Crafting of Work and Meaning
Meged, J. W., & Christensen, M. D. (2017) · Tourism on the verge · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51799-5_12 · Cited by 24
Dickinson, J. E., Filimonau, V., Cherrett, T., Davies, N., Hibbert, J. F., Norgate, S., & Speed, C. (2017) · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · doi:10.1016/j.trd.2017.11.004 · Cited by 24
“This represents a true form of community sharing (Belk, 2014).”
BackgroundThe Camøno: A Communitarian Walking Trail in the Sharing Economy
Gyimóthy, S., & Meged, J. W. (2018) · Tourism Planning & Development · doi:10.1080/21568316.2018.1504318 · Cited by 24
Emotional Labor in the Sharing Economy
Lutz, C., Newlands, G., & Fieseler, C. (2018) · Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · doi:10.24251/hicss.2018.081 · Cited by 21
“As distributed e-commerce platforms needed to form trust, they reified ‘reputation’ by collecting and displaying feedback ratings as a seemingly objective calculation of reputation within a network [3, 7, 8, 11, 26, 27, 61].”
BackgroundČinjarević, M., Kožo, A., & Berberović, D. (2019) · South East European Journal of Economics and Business · doi:10.2478/jeb-2019-0003 · Cited by 24
“The idea of sharing is old as humanity (Belk 2014a), and we share for both functional and altruistic reasons (Fine 1980).”
InfluentialHerbert, M., & Collin‐Lachaud, I. (2016) · Recherche et Applications en Marketing (English Edition) · doi:10.1177/2051570716678736 · Cited by 24
“We can see from our data that although reselling and renting are sometimes disguised as ‘pseudo-sharing’ (Belk, 2014a), our informants clearly distinguish them from veritable sharing activities.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialMatzner, M., Chasin, F., von Hoffen, M., Plenter, F., & Becker, J. (2016) · Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) · doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.201 · Cited by 23
“itself as well as its scope [3, 12, 9, 10] and understanding consumers’ motivation to participate in corresponding services [5], we take an IS researcher’s perspective and address the challenge of how to design a certain P2P SCC service.”
BackgroundPilot study on food sharing and social media in Italy
D’Ambrosi, L. (2018) · British Food Journal · doi:10.1108/bfj-06-2017-0341 · Cited by 24
Entrepreneurship Opportunities
Σιγάλα, Μ., & Dolničar, S. (2017) · Goodfellow Publishers Ltd eBooks · doi:10.23912/9781911396512-3605 · Cited by 22
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Drivers of Consumer Participation in Online Second-Hand Transactions
Hinojo, P., Suárez, D., & García-Mariñoso, B. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su14074318 · Cited by 29
Metadata
- Authors
- Belk, R.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Belk, Russell
- ORCID
- Belk, Russell
- Venue
- The Anthropologist
- Publisher
- Kamla Raj Enterprises
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-23
- ISSN
- 0972-0073 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2184849112
- Cited by
- 622
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 73 · 2021: 77 · 2020: 90 · 2019: 86 · 2018: 62 · 2017: 68 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 126.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Anthropologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- sharing, Web 2.0, commodity exchange, customer co-creation, profit motive, reciprocity, community, ethics of sharing, internet technologies
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