In this study, we focus on the discourses surrounding practices involving digital social interaction devices that promote collaborative consumption without monetary exchange. We question the narratives built around new consumption practices tied to a collaborative economy project without financial transactions and explore the emerging meanings. Using a qualitative and exploratory research design, our methodological protocol included bibliographic research engaging with authors such as Botsman (2013), Agamben (2005), and Rocha (2012); observation of user interactions on the study’s empirical devices (Beliive and Tem Açúcar?); and in-depth interviews, complemented by sociocultural questionnaires.
We identified that a significant meaning emerging from the use of digital social interaction devices with collaborative consumption proposals that do not involve monetary benefits is their potential for (re)humanizing relationships.