Recommendations for the Sharing Economy: Increasing Participation

Andreotti, Alberta; Anselmi, Guido; Eichhorn, T.; Hoffmann, Christian; Jürss, Sebastian; Micheli, Marina

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3107584

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“…Another key finding of the study was women being less likely to be willing to share personal information for energy efficiency-which goes against commonly held belief and findings in other environmental consumption studies that purport women as being more ecologically conscious and make more environmentally friendly decisions than men do [20,44,59], but at the same time is in line with studies that found gendered differences in the energy sector such as women having lower risk tolerance and lower trust in technology [101] as well as insecurities related to personal information such as those in the sharing economy and how consumers perception of the roles of information-based services varies by gender [102,103]. Given these new insights together with the increasing dual role of people in exercising both political and market power [104] in the Nordics, EU and beyond, who are becoming more concerned across sectors due to pressures arising from the environment [105][106][107]-with international institutions, standards, or examples from other countries further encouraging states to adopt new energy policies [108].…”

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confidence: 84%

Willingness to share information for energy efficiency: exploring differences and drivers across the Nordic countries

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2022

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Background There is growing attention and policy debate about the sharing of personal information that the modernization of electricity grids requires. This is particularly important for big data management in smart grids that needs access to data generated and sent through devices such as smart meters. Using the Nordic Countries as a case study, this study investigates the willingness of people to share personal information for energy efficiency. The study builds upon data from the Eurobarometer survey and binary logistic regressions. Results Nordic countries exhibit a higher willingness to share personal information compared to the rest of the EU countries. However, despite high levels of concern for climate change and other pro-environmental attitudes found overall among Europeans, the willingness to share personal information is not as prevalent and is still mainly shaped by socio-demographic features such as gender and age. Key predictors also included climate change perception and congruence of citizen engagement with environmentally friendly behaviors. Several contextual and market-specific issues framing these findings are discussed (e.g., trust, energy use). Conclusions Even when high levels of pro-environmental attitudes in certain countries are found, let alone the Nordics, this does not mean people are willing to share personal information that would support pro-environmental energy efficiency behaviors and policies.

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confidence: 84%

Willingness to share information for energy efficiency: exploring differences and drivers across the Nordic countries

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2022

Energ Sustain Soc

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“…people naturally use the internet to find and distribute activities in their communities, as Sproull and Kiesler [61] and Stern et al [11] have shown, besides looking for information about the issues they face. Other studies also show the same thing that the internet is becoming a medium capable of increasing direct human interaction at events in a variety of scopes and issues such as in the economy [62,63], community [56], and politics [64,65], although that happens with different processes.…”

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confidence: 90%

Social Interaction of Indonesian Rural Youths in the Internet Age

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The internet penetration on young villagers gives rise to question about its effects on the social interaction and behavior patterns as it accelerates the interaction with the wider network. However, the internet could possibly decrease both the social interaction with local people at the village and the dependency toward native villagers as internet utilization allows the users to be more selective in terms of interactions according to their interests. This research aims to examine the impacts of the Internet through a dystopian view by comparing the degrees of senses of place, participation in local activities, and social capital among internet and non-internet users using a statistical approach. The analysis of variance and linear regression were employed in the present study. The results revealed that the internet did strengthen both broad and local social capital. It also supported young villager's participation in local activities. Nevertheless, the internet was observed to decline the villager's sense of place, especially the desire to remain a resident in the native village. Better access to information and network gained by the users elevated their chances to move outside the village when better opportunities were observed elsewhere.Sustainability 2020, 12, 115 2 of 26 face-to-face and traditional communication by which deep relationship could be considerably formed. This action strengthened social capital (SC) within local community [5] and reinforced one's attachment and dependency on the local community and living place. Later, the involvement of a resident on the internet afterwards allows him to be more selective in accordingly interacting with his interests [6]. It can accelerate, and shorten the time of, one's interaction with the network beyond space [7]. But, in the dystopian view, it possibly decreases the intensity of interaction with local people as a person needs time and effort as well to manage the other acquaintances [6].Besides transformed social interaction, the immediate impact felt by internet users is the easy access to information. Abundant information can support young villagers in making decisions in daily matters [8][9][10]. The internet, with its various derivative applications, also modifies rural youth's ways to do activities such as shopping, playing games, reading, and watching videos by simply going online. Things brought about by the internet in some cases are the answers to the needs of villagers (e.g. Stern et al. [11]). For instance, the information on job vacancies or skill training can easily reach rural youths' gadgets. However, sources of prospective self-improvement carriers are generally outside the native village.The new style of rural social life, however, could bring both negative and positive impacts. The internet inevitably improves people's networks, understanding of the outside world, lifestyle, and other personal aspects [7]. Since the rural areas mostly have limited facilities to meet a higher lifestyle, there would be a tendency in the people to feel mor...

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“…The aspects of more balance and more equitable rules partly touch upon the topic of participation, which was addressed in depth in the participation recommendation report (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, Jürss, & Micheli, 2018). However, power imbalances go beyond participation inequalities and also emerge between different users groups as well as in the relation between platforms and users.…”

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confidence: 99%