The term crowdfunding is used to define fundraising campaigns addressed to web users in general or to users of specific web platforms. It’s a growing practice, especially to support cultural and music projects. This kind of micro-financing can be considered an example of the new forms of participation to cultural production afforded by digital media, which are the focus of an ongoing academic debate. After a brief reference to this debate, the results from a research on websites specialised in music crowdfunding will be presented, in order to illustrate different crowdfunding models, to point out the technological and discursive contexts in which interactions between applicants and backers take place and to examine the actions and experiences of both.

Money for what? Web users as investors and patrons through crowdfunding platforms / D'Amato, Francesco. - (2011). (Intervento presentato al convegno WOMEX 11 Conference tenutosi a Copenaghen nel 28 Ottobre 2011).

Money for what? Web users as investors and patrons through crowdfunding platforms

D'AMATO, Francesco
2011

Abstract

The term crowdfunding is used to define fundraising campaigns addressed to web users in general or to users of specific web platforms. It’s a growing practice, especially to support cultural and music projects. This kind of micro-financing can be considered an example of the new forms of participation to cultural production afforded by digital media, which are the focus of an ongoing academic debate. After a brief reference to this debate, the results from a research on websites specialised in music crowdfunding will be presented, in order to illustrate different crowdfunding models, to point out the technological and discursive contexts in which interactions between applicants and backers take place and to examine the actions and experiences of both.
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