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Crowdfunding Investigations: Lessons Learned About Harnessing Audience Buy-In from Ireland, Brazil, and Portugal
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), February 14 (2024)
"Investigative journalism is expensive. Partnerships and grants can help but can also introduce conditions or stall proceedings. Could crowdfunding, where audience members donate to support an investigation, offer an alternative? “Crowdfunding serves as a crucial revenue source in investigative jo
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Digital Patronage: Toward a New Model of Building a Radio Station
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1861-1879
"This article analyzes how patronage crowdfunding is becoming a central part of the model for building a radio station. Implementing this model requires mobilizing listeners to engage in the direct, long-term financial support of a station. The analysis conducted in this article is based on a case s
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Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
London: University of Westminster Press (2019), vii, 118 pp.
"Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, supposedly enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propo
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Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?
China Quarterly, issue 240 (2019), pp. 936-966
"Social media in China has not only become a popular means of communication, but also expanded the interaction between the government and online citizens. Why have some charitable crowdfunding campaigns had agenda-setting influence on public policy, while others have had limited or no impact? Based
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Crowdfunding Movies: A Business Model Analysis from Strategic Management Studies
In: Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation
Paul Clemens Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2018), pp. 635-656
"A crowdfunding platform for movies is an alternative way of refunding movie production costs. Usually, such platform combines several types of funding, including sourcing the Internet community to gather small private donations, that is, a revenue stream which is typically named “crowdfunding”.
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Crowdfunding of Journalism as a Way to Enhance Transparency: The Case of the Platform Rapport
Nordicom-Information, volume 40, issue 1 (2018), pp. 91-94
"Over the course of the past few years, crowdfunding platforms have made significant gains in art and technology, and more recently in the field of journalism. This article provides an overview of Rapport, a Finnish crowdfunding platform designed to allow a new approach for journalists to fund their
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"My Boss is 18,000 People": Journalism Practices in Crowdfunded Media Organizations
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 110-118
"This article analyses three crowdfunded media organizations in three different countries – Krautreporter (Germany), Direkt36 (Hungary), and Colta (Russia). Using qualitative in-depth interviews, it demonstrates that journalism practices in a crowdfunded newsroom are very different from those in o
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Case Study: Crowdfunding Civic Action - Pimp my Carroça
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 609-612
Crowdfunded Journalism: A Small But Growing Addition to Publicly Driven Journalism. Projects Funded Through Kickstarter Cut Across More Than 60 Countries
Pew Research Center (2016), 33 pp.
"From April 28, 2009 to September 15, 2015, 658 journalism-related projects proposed on Kickstarter, one of the largest single hubs for crowdfunding journalism, received full – or more than full – funding, to the tune of nearly $6.3 million. These totals – both in terms of number of projects a
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Plataformas de crowdfunding en América Latina
Lima: Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 68 pp.
"El presente documento es un analisis descriptivo del sector de crowdfunding – financiamiento mediante una multitud de donantes por medio de Internet - en América Latina. Su objetivo es conocer el tamaño, las caracteríticas y la dinámica de las plataformas latinoamericanas de crowdfunding. Par
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Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics and Digital Society
New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xii, 274 pp.
"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 cr
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Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups
Washington, DC: World Bank (2015), 15 pp.
"The discussion of opportunity costs, choosing a platform and networking strategies highlights the clear need for more industry data and transparency [...] Further, the private sector can monetize research on network effects and fundraising norms across the continent [...] Regarding the supply of ca
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Motivations Behind Donors' Contributions to Crowdfunding Journalism
Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-185
"Crowdfunded journalism is a new model for funding journalism in which reporters solicit micropayments from readers to finance their reporting. In the present study, we seek to identify the major motivations behind readers' donations to a pioneering crowdfunded journalism website, Spot.Us. Under the
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Creative Funding for Creative Media: Crowdfunding Guide for Media Professionals
Brussels: Future Media Lab; European Magazine Media Association (EMMA); European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) (2014), 26 pp.
Crowdfunding’s Potential for the Developing World
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2013), 101 pp.
"Credible crowdfunding systems require more than entrepreneurs and willing investors. They also need a supportive ecosystem and enabling factors, including forward-thinking regulations, effective technological solutions, and cultures that can adapt to this new investment vehicle. This includes the c
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The Crowdfunding Bible: How to Raise Money for Any Startup, Video Game, or Project
Read.me; Overload Entertainment (2012), 80 pp.
