[Air-L] Researching Crowdfunding and Online Community

[Daren Brabham]

I would also point you to http://www.crowdsourcing.org/ to find some stuff
on crowdfunding (and crowdsourcing). The site is an aggregator of sorts for
anything that discusses these issues. There's not much of a filter, for
better or worse, so just about any company or scholarly article that claims
to be about crowdsourcing or crowdfunding ends up catalogued on the site. It
may serve as a good starting point, though, for tracking down key studies,
companies, or researchers on crowdfunding.

As a crowdsourcing researcher, I haven't done much on crowdfunding (which I
consider conceptually distinct!), but I'm working on a paper now about how
the discourse on crowdfunding may affect public arts funding - get in touch
in a few weeks and I can share a copy of it. 

Cheers,

db



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>>
>> On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver at open.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> My name is Alex Stiver and I¹m a PhD researcher in the Centre for 
>>> Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open 
>>> University (UK).
>>>
>>> We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online 
>>> community and crowdfunding.  Our research hopes to unearth knowledge 
>>> not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful 
>>> financially, but also the nature of the relationship between 
>>> crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact 
>>> each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and
feedback?
>>>
>>> We are wondering if colleagues may have experience with 
>>> crowdfunding, and would be willing to share their stories and
impressions with us:
>>> perspectives on the role of project creators or funders, involvement 
>>> with the community (online or offline) associated with the project, 
>>> and specific thoughts on crowdfunding platforms and processes.  We 
>>> would be most grateful to hear from you and to be in touch further.
>>>
>>> Please contact me <alexandra.stiver <at> open.ac.uk> if you would be 
>>> willing to contribute, or for further information about the project.
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>>
>>> Alex
>>> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), 
>>> an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in 
>>> Scotland (SC 038302).
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