More gifts

Just found this article by Erika Pearson courtesy of danah boyd's SNS research list. The title is Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in LiveJournal communities so I found its contents of great interest - if a little schematic. Erika could get down deeper into actual examples of gift-giving but it's still useful.

At a basic level, gift exchanges within communities serve to tie people
together into loops of reciprocal obligation.