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Emergent Relational Structures at a “Sharing Economy” Festival

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Abstract

How do participants to an event engage with others? This paper examines the emergent relational structure at a “sharing economy” festival, the 2016 OuiShare Fest. A multi-level network analysis design explores the linkages between participation patterns of the “elite” (speakers) and other participants, to unveil the social processes through which status hierarchies emerge and actors manage ensuing tensions. Newly developed specifications for exponential random graph models reveal a tension between cooperation (among actors with shared thematic interests) and competition for audience, whereby conformism and differential use of reciprocity in attendance relationships generate an informal pecking order.

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Notes

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    OuiShare Fest website, URL: http://ouisharefest.com/.

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    Because physical attendance was not monitored, it cannot be assumed that Sched choices always resulted in actual meetings with the speakers or other attendees.

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    Only choices outside speakers’ own sessions are considered, taking out cases in which attendance is imposed by the organizers (for example, speakers who present in the same panel.

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    These were: Building Enterprises for the Digital Age, Digital Institutions and The City, Education and Personal Development, Power and Capital in the 21st Century Organization, The (Present) Future of Work Understanding Decentralization and The Blockchain.

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    Goodness of fit has been calculated for indegree, geodesic distances, shared partner distributions, triad census and and the terms of the original model as recommended in [16].

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  2. IUT Lumière, University of Lyon, Bron Cedex, France

    Chantal Cherifi

  3. LE2I UMR CNRS 6306 9, University of Burgundy, Dijon Cedex, France

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  4. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Tubaro, P. (2019). Emergent Relational Structures at a “Sharing Economy” Festival. In: Aiello, L., Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Lambiotte, R., Lió, P., Rocha, L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 813. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05414-4_45

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