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

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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