{"title":"Far from an Alternative: Intermediation Apparatuses","authors":"V. Rouzé","doi":"10.16997/book38.c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/book38.c","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter Vincent Rouze approaches crowdfunding through the question of the ‘alternative’. Something alternative may be promised by the ‘apparatus’ of crowdfunding or it may be more directly defined by platforms’ work, where the expression ‘alternative finance market’ is used. In either case, it is argued we should question this potential alternative, and its ‘disruptive’ character—in terms of the logics of intermediation involved, the partnerships forged by crowdfunding platforms, and the competitive economic logics they establish. This chapter shows how, far from being ‘alternative’, these platforms are new intermediaries in this creative ‘ecosystem’, which effectively reinforce the tried and tested logics and strategies of the capitalist cultural industry. These are ‘apparatuses’ adapted to market strategies. Five types of platforms are outlined: generalist, niche, local, combined and integrated which function to stimulate extensive partnerships. The chapter also discusses legislation of platforms, how they normalize behaviours and the nature of the experience and perceptions of artists and creators who use platforms. Overall competitive logics dominate in a ‘collaborative market’ that also generates additional rivalries but which has the experience of the consumer/citizen at its heart.","PeriodicalId":278049,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129203576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalization and the Logics of Capitalism","authors":"Jacob Matthews, S. Costantini, Alix Bénistant","doi":"10.16997/book38.e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16997/book38.e","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the development of crowdfunding platforms in subSaharan Africa and Latin America, considering this phenomenon from the point of view of a twofold hypothesis: that it participates in the extension towards the South of the market logics that have driven the emergence of digital intermediation platforms in the West, and that it may be an opportunity for hybridisation and fruitful social and cultural alternatives. Indeed, the fundamental question which initially guided our investigations was as follows, two-fold: To what extent is the emergence of crowdfunding in these countries characterized by the replication of the dominant logics which we have analysed in the previous three chapters, and which are characterized as we have seen, on the one hand, by the remanence (and in many respects) an intensification of the capitalist logics at play in the field of communication and culture industries, and on the other hand, by the development of an ideology of collaboration and participation that appears to be particularly effective with regard to relations of production and labour conditions? Or, can we observe specific trends and phenomena pertaining specifically to the local/regional or endogenous economic, social and cultural configurations, which might in turn support the emergence and development of hitherto unseen tools for social development","PeriodicalId":278049,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117339987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}