Appealing to the Crowd: The Ethical, Political, and Practical Dimensions of Donation-Based Crowdfunding - Hardcover

Snyder, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019765813X ISBN 13: 9780197658130

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2023

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This book offers a close examination of the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of donation-based online crowdfunding for basic needs including medical treatment, housing, food, and education. Crowdfunding uses online platforms and social networks to raise money from friends, family, and complete strangers for a variety of projects and needs. This practice has grown massively worldwide in recent years in terms of the numbers of crowdfunding campaigns and donors, money raised, visibility, and cultural influence.

While the money raised through crowdfunding has helped millions of recipients, there is also reason for concern around how it may undermine campaigners' privacy and dignity, mirror and exacerbate social inequities, mask and deepen social injustice, defraud donors, and spread misinformation and hate. Author Jeremy Snyder places this discussion of crowdfunding in the wider historical and ethical context of giving practices. In doing so, Snyder shows that crowdfunding can repeat and exacerbate problems with traditional giving practices while creating other, new problems.

Snyder concludes by presenting nine values that should guide donation-based crowdfunding: benefit, choice, solidarity, privacy, dignity, equity, social justice, non-maleficence, and accountability. These values can help crowdfunding donors, campaigners, recipients, platforms, and policy makers preserve the good that can come from crowdfunding while addressing some of its many negative aspects.

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Jeremy Snyder is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, where he has been a faculty member since 2007. He is the author of Exploiting Hope (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019765813X
• ISBN 13: 9780197658130
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 261
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