this video by Justin attempts* to describe, reflect, analyze and figure out how crowdfunding plays into the democratic nature of the internet and exemplifies it.
*Key word being attempts.
scholar Reference:
-English, R 2014, ‘Rent-a-crowd? Crowdfunding academic research’, First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet, vol. 19, no. 1.
-Galuszka, P and Bystrov, V 2014, ‘The rise of fanvestors: a study of a crowdfunding community’, First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet, vol. 19, no. 5.
-Lucchi, N 2015, ‘Internet-Based Communication: Rights, Risks and Opportunities’, European Journal of Risk Regulation, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 121-128
-Vanderhill, R 2015, ‘Limits on the Democratizing Influence of the Internet: Lessons from Post-Soviet States’, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, no. 1, p. 31.
Other Reference:
-‘Pulling a crowd: for as long as there have been SMEs there have been challenges in raising capital for business growth. Now a new website-initiated crowdfunding option is becoming available. Glenn Baker reviews this new kid on the block, along with more traditional funding options’, 2014, NZ Business, no. 3, p. 30
Salen, K (2008), ‘toward an ecology of gaming’, in K Salen (eds), The Ecology of Games: Connecting youth, games, and learning, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Massachusetts, pp41-68.
Turkle, S (2005), ‘computer games as evocative objects: from projective screens to relational artifacts’, in J Raessens & J Goldstien (eds), handbook of computer game studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, UK, pp267-279.
Media reference:
music by me.
Creative commons images:
-«crowdfunding scheme» no authir- CC0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elveos_crowdfunding_scheme.png
-community word collage-Balboa Park Cultural partnership Photostream-CC BY-SA 2.0
-«Hands together» Open Clip Art-vectors-CC0.
https://pixabay.com/en/circle-community-hands-holding-159252/
-«Crowdfunding» IreneDeKoning-CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowdfunding.jpg
-«Fireball» Geralt-CC0
https://pixabay.com/en/fireball-fire-brand-armageddon-422746/
-«Geefunding_crowdfunding» Bizking2u-CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geefunding_crowdfunding.png
«Museum of Australian Democracy wall entrance» Takvar-CC BY-SA 2.0