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Appealing to the crowd : the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of donation-based crowdfunding / Jeremy Snyder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Jeremy, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crowd funding--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Crowd funding.
- Electronic fund raising--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Electronic fund raising.
- Crowd funding--Social aspects.
- Electronic fund raising--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This text offers a close examination of the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of donation-based online crowdfunding for basic needs including medical treatment, housing, food, and education. Crowdfunding uses online platforms and social networks to raise money from friends, family, and complete strangers for a variety of projects and needs. This practice has grown massively worldwide in recent years in terms of the numbers of crowdfunding campaigns and donors, money raised, visibility, and cultural influence.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Appealing to the Crowd
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Giving and the rise of crowdfunding
- 2. Crowding out privacy
- 3. Proving your worth
- 4. Who gets funded?
- 5. Missing and masking injustice
- 6. Crowdfrauding
- 7. Misinformation and hate
- 8. Crowdfunding during a pandemic
- 9. Crowdfunding as a mediated practice
- Conclusion: Making crowdfunding more appealing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Snyder, Jeremy Appealing to the Crowd
- ISBN:
- 0-19-765816-4
- 0-19-765815-6
- 0-19-765814-8
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