Funder: ESRC, HEIF and BIPC
Team: Jo Briggs and Rosie Anderson (Northumbria University); Patrick McCole and Colm Burns (Queens University Belfast); and latterly with Ann Light (Sussex University/Malmo University)
Website: PURE record here
Timeframe: 2014 –
This was the first RCUK award on online crowdfunding, which concerns amassing multiple often small financial pledges through the internet to resource a proposed product or event, or to support a chosen cause. Initial (desk-based) research revealed a lack of relevant literature with existing work focused on single economic measures of ‘success’ or ‘failure’. This paucity led the Northumbria team to look directly at recent and live crowdfunding campaigns, conduct interviews with UK campaign funders, fundraisers and crowdfunding experts, and organise a programme of engagement work. As their collective knowledge developed they fed insights back to organisations in the North East via ‘how to’ workshops, organised a roundtable ‘policy’ event bringing in additional expertise, and conducted in-depth evaluations with and for local arts and creative industries organisations. This aligned programme of awareness raising, experience sharing and evaluation aimed to generate regionally and culturally contextually relevant understandings around crowdfunding’s ‘more than money’ potential. Recent work proposes that rather than ‘crowd’, a paying public develops through demonstrating collective interest in funding a chosen outcome.
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Ann Light and Jo Briggs. 2019. The Design of Paying Publics. In Dan Marom, Oliver Gajda and Tim Wright (Eds). Crowd Asset: Crowdfunding for Policy Makers. World Scientific Pub. (In press)
Ann Light and Jo Briggs. 2017. Crowdfunding Platforms and the Design of Paying Publics. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 797-809. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025979
Rosie Anderson. 2015. The Co-op and the Cloud: Politics, Emotion and Government. 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Edinburgh, 10-12 June 2015. (Presentation).
