stranger sharing

is the extension of one's economic community far beyond family or friends to a digitally vetted subset of the population at large.

Well, first, these new ways of doing familiar things are being powered by technologies that extend your economic 'community' far beyond family or friends who live in your neighborhood, to a digitally vetted subset of the population at large: allowing us to engage in what the sociologist Juliet Schor calls 'stranger sharing.'

is the idea that today's sharing platforms facilitate sharing among people who do not know each other and who do not have friends or connections in common.

The sociologist Juliet Schor discusses this in her essay Debating the Sharing Economy: 'While the discourse of novelty in this sector is overrated, there is something new afoot: what I call 'stranger sharing.' Although there are exceptions (e.g., elite travelers in ancient Greece), people have historically limited sharing to within their own social networks. Today's sharing platforms facilitate sharing among people who do not know each other and who do not have friends or connections in common.'

stranger sharing, n.All

stranger sharing