The concept of collaborative consumption has been developed in consumer studies to define new consumption opportunities which are facilitated by information systems.Accordingly,novel services such as the ridesharing s...The concept of collaborative consumption has been developed in consumer studies to define new consumption opportunities which are facilitated by information systems.Accordingly,novel services such as the ridesharing service Uber,for transport,and the hospitality-brokering service Airbnb,for accommodation,successfully employ collaboration in consumption and provide consumers with novel types of access to services.Yet while the identification of this new characteristic of consumption is of great merit,less attention has been paid in consumer studies to how it challenges existing market arrangements.It is against this background that this article examines collaborative consumption as a source of market disruption.The article applies the concept to the empirical case of a pilot scheme in collaborative public transport(Kutsuplus),which essentially consisted of a taxi-like bus service in Helsinki,Finland.It argues that collaborative consumption may tend to contribute premium rather than standard quality in public services,which is apt to disrupt both public and private service markets.The analysis further affirms that the concept of collaborative consumption is well suited to the assessment of novel services and their disruptive characteristics.展开更多
There are increasing calls for engaging citizens in the development of future outlooks. At the same time, large-scale public engagement activities warrant appropriate methods for analyzing their outcomes. This paper r...There are increasing calls for engaging citizens in the development of future outlooks. At the same time, large-scale public engagement activities warrant appropriate methods for analyzing their outcomes. This paper reviews how topic modeling could provide such a methodology, which both accounts for all textual data collected in public engagement activities, however large in scope, yet also allows for meaningful topical analysis. It compares topic modeling results concerning a corpus of 179 citizen visions from 30 European countries on desirable and sustainable futures to those acquired through deliberative analysis. While both methodologies contend that European citizens＇ outlook consists of education, sustainability in the economy, health concerns, and fairness in communities, and the particular strengths of topic modeling relate to its documentability, repeatability, cost efficiency, and scalability. Topic modeling can also be considered to support public engagement analytically from the perspective of knowledge formation rather than that of common sense.展开更多
文摘The concept of collaborative consumption has been developed in consumer studies to define new consumption opportunities which are facilitated by information systems.Accordingly,novel services such as the ridesharing service Uber,for transport,and the hospitality-brokering service Airbnb,for accommodation,successfully employ collaboration in consumption and provide consumers with novel types of access to services.Yet while the identification of this new characteristic of consumption is of great merit,less attention has been paid in consumer studies to how it challenges existing market arrangements.It is against this background that this article examines collaborative consumption as a source of market disruption.The article applies the concept to the empirical case of a pilot scheme in collaborative public transport(Kutsuplus),which essentially consisted of a taxi-like bus service in Helsinki,Finland.It argues that collaborative consumption may tend to contribute premium rather than standard quality in public services,which is apt to disrupt both public and private service markets.The analysis further affirms that the concept of collaborative consumption is well suited to the assessment of novel services and their disruptive characteristics.
文摘There are increasing calls for engaging citizens in the development of future outlooks. At the same time, large-scale public engagement activities warrant appropriate methods for analyzing their outcomes. This paper reviews how topic modeling could provide such a methodology, which both accounts for all textual data collected in public engagement activities, however large in scope, yet also allows for meaningful topical analysis. It compares topic modeling results concerning a corpus of 179 citizen visions from 30 European countries on desirable and sustainable futures to those acquired through deliberative analysis. While both methodologies contend that European citizens＇ outlook consists of education, sustainability in the economy, health concerns, and fairness in communities, and the particular strengths of topic modeling relate to its documentability, repeatability, cost efficiency, and scalability. Topic modeling can also be considered to support public engagement analytically from the perspective of knowledge formation rather than that of common sense.
