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GoFailMe
- The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding
Engelsk Paperback
GoFailMe
- The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding
Engelsk Paperback

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The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781503636927
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503636925
Udg. Dato:
26 sep 2023
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
26 sep 2023
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