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 --- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Editor, Case Studies in Strategic Communication | www.csscjournal.org University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213) 740-2007 office | (801) 633-4796 cell brabham@usc.edu | www.darenbrabham.com
On 05/11/2013 13:24, "Alexandra.Stiver" <Alexandra.Stiver@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!
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