Gifting technologies: A BitTorrent case study

Gifting technologies

File-sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with file-acquisition. However, there is strong evidence that people have strong giving (or gifting) desires. This suggests an opportunity for the development of gifting technologies – and it also suggests an important research challenge: what needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies ca...

Gift-giving as a conceptual framework: framing social behavior in online networks

This paper explores the use of gift-giving as a theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior in online networks and communities. Not only has gift-giving the potential to frame and explain much social media behavior, but reversely, and perhaps more importantly, mediated social behavior also has the potential to develop gift-giving theory. Information and communication tech...

Gifting Technologies – Ethnographic Studies of End-users and Social Media Sharing

Evaluating the Impact of Software-defined Networks' Reactive Routing on BitTorrent Performance

Software-Defined Networks’ technologies introduce programmatic ways to reorganize the network logical topology. To achieve this, the switches in the network interact with a set of controllers, these controllers can dynamically update the switches configuration based in received events. A possible practical field of use of Software-Defined Networks’ is the one called Reactive Routing. On Reactiv...

Association between secondhand smoke exposure at home and cigarette gifting and sharing in Zhejiang, China: a repeat cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES The aims of the current study were to assess the prevalence of household cigarette gifting and sharing, and to evaluate the relationship between secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, and cigarette gifting and sharing, in Zhejiang, China. DESIGN A repeat cross-sectional design. SETTING 10 sites in 5 cities in Zhejiang, China. PARTICIPANTS Two surveys were conducted with adults in Zhe...