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[Commlist] New book: Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization

Tue Dec 03 16:10:54 GMT 2019




CULTURAL CROWDFUNDING: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
Edited by Vincent Rouzé


This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. 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 propose a critical analysis of these phenomena by questioning what follows from decisions to outsource modes of creation and funding to consumers. Drawing on research carried out within the ‘Collab’ programme backed by the French National Research Agency, the book considers how platforms are used to organize cultural labour  and/or to control usages, following a logic of suggestion rather than overt injunction. Four key areas are considered: the history of crowdfunding as a system; whose interests crowdfunding may serve; the implications for digital labour and lastly crowdfunding’s interface with globalization and contemporary capitalism. The book concludes with an assessment of claims that crowdfunding.


EDITOR

Vincent Rouzé is Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Paris 8 and a member of the Centre for Media, Technology and Internationalization Studies (Cemti). He is the author of Mythologie de l’iPod (2010) and coedited the volume Financement Participatif: les Nouveaux Territoires du Capitalisme (2019).


Contributors: Jacob Matthews, Stéphane Costantini, Alix Bénistant


Published open access by the University of Westminster Press

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book38

Published 29 November 2019


This book is published in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies


FORMAT

128 pages 229 x 152mm


OPEN ACCESS

Pdf, Epub and kindle versions available Free From uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site books: PDF 978-1-912656-39-4; ePub 978-1-912656-40-0 Kindle 978-1-912656-41-7: DOI:10.16997/book34


PAPERBACK

978-1-912656-38-7    £19.99



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