Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
interactions - The Counterfeit You
Characteristics of shared health reflections in a local community
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Designing eco-feedback systems for everyday life
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Foodmunity: designing community interactions over food
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online and offline interactions in online communities
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Health promotion as activism: building community capacity to effect social change
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Participation and publics: supporting community engagement
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Examining technology that supports community policing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Hollaback!: the role of storytelling online in a social movement organization
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Consequences of content diversity for online public spaces for local communities
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Uses & gratifications of a facebook media sharing group
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Comparing the use of social networking and traditional media channels for promoting citizen science
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Negotiating food waste: Using a practice lens to inform design
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Social networking has a long history of supporting communities online. In this paper we are concerned with a specific community that has formed around free food sharing to save food from being wasted. Specifically, Foodsharing.de is a platform that enables consumers, farmers, organizations and retailers to offer and collect food. Associated with this is the Foodsharing Facebook group where broader community discussions take place. We report on a qualitative analysis of the Foodsharing Facebook group to understand its role in emerging and sustaining the community. The Facebook group is a place where the individual values and motives, socio-political discussions and mass media interrelate and create new social patterns through narratives and local community building. We present our findings as interplay between individual, community, organisational levels, public relations and media, the operational platform Foodsharing.de that enables local communities and the Facebook group where global ideological framing of the community takes place.