Crowdfunding the Future
eBook - PDF

Crowdfunding the Future

Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society

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  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Crowdfunding the Future

Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society

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About this book

The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few years. Crowdfunding the Future undertakes a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the new, and growing, phenomenon of crowdfunding and its encompassment of digital society and media industries. The book offers a wide range of perspectives and empirical research, providing analyses of crowdfunded projects, the interaction between producers and audiences, and the role that websites such as Kickstarter play in discussions around fan agency and exploitation, as well as the ethics of crowdfunding. With a series of chapters covering a global range of disciplines and topics, this volume offers a comprehensive overview on crowdfunding, examining and unraveling the international debates around this increasingly popular practice. The book is suitable for courses covering media studies, fandom, digital media, sociology, film production, anthropology, audience, and cultural studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction: Funding the Future? Contextualising Crowdfunding (Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin and Bethan Jones)
  7. Section One: Crowdfunding Platforms and Ethics
  8. Section Two: Social and Civic Crowdfunding
  9. Section Three: Fandom and the Media Industries
  10. Afterword: The Future of Crowdfunding (Paul Booth)
  11. Conclusion: Where Next for Crowdfunding? (Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin and Bethan Jones)
  12. Contributors
  13. Index