What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018)
The media landscape has drastically changed during the past decade with the emergence of new models and platforms allowing citizens to become amateur journalists and news publishers. Alongside traditional players, newcomers and do-it-yourself initiatives emerged in the market with the help of platfo...
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2020-05-01
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| author | Carolina Dalla Chiesa Mariana Scalabrin Müller |
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| description | The media landscape has drastically changed during the past decade with the emergence of new models and platforms allowing citizens to become amateur journalists and news publishers. Alongside traditional players, newcomers and do-it-yourself initiatives emerged in the market with the help of platforms that seek to connect with a potential audience and offer alternative funding means, such as crowdfunding. Success cases and innovative examples abound in the literature, often on a case-based analysis, showing the potential of this funding model to support local projects and investigative journalism. It is the aim of this paper to descriptively unveil the characteristics of such crowdfunding calls via a content analysis using the Kickstarter website, as this is generally a representative case of the reward-based crowdfunding model worldwide. This study contributes to discuss not only the features of calls but, furthermore, to which extent crowdfunding seems to bring about novel ways of creating and sharing content. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d21424486854a6e9d8ce5f416d3a7fd2022-12-22T03:08:05ZengCoimbra University PressMedia&Jornalismo1645-56812183-54622020-05-01203610.14195/2183-5462_36_3What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018)Carolina Dalla ChiesaMariana Scalabrin Müller0University of Minho and Nova School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThe media landscape has drastically changed during the past decade with the emergence of new models and platforms allowing citizens to become amateur journalists and news publishers. Alongside traditional players, newcomers and do-it-yourself initiatives emerged in the market with the help of platforms that seek to connect with a potential audience and offer alternative funding means, such as crowdfunding. Success cases and innovative examples abound in the literature, often on a case-based analysis, showing the potential of this funding model to support local projects and investigative journalism. It is the aim of this paper to descriptively unveil the characteristics of such crowdfunding calls via a content analysis using the Kickstarter website, as this is generally a representative case of the reward-based crowdfunding model worldwide. This study contributes to discuss not only the features of calls but, furthermore, to which extent crowdfunding seems to bring about novel ways of creating and sharing content.https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj/article/view/7350crowdfundingJournalismContent AnalysisKickstarter |
| spellingShingle | Carolina Dalla Chiesa Mariana Scalabrin Müller What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) Media&Jornalismo crowdfunding Journalism Content Analysis Kickstarter |
| title | What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) |
| title_full | What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) |
| title_fullStr | What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) |
| title_full_unstemmed | What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) |
| title_short | What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018) |
| title_sort | what is the shape of crowdfunding calls for journalism a content analysis of projects on kickstarter 2010 2018 |
| topic | crowdfunding Journalism Content Analysis Kickstarter |
| url | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj/article/view/7350 |
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