Who’s the Shop Steward on Your Kickstarter? | Josh MacPhee | The Baffler. Interesting, detailed article on how Kickstarter provides the infrastructure for turning your social network into a commodity, which they then take their percentage of.
It’s important that everyone’s eyes be wide open going into such a fundraising transaction . . . and be aware not only of potential moral conflicts but also of the actual monetary return on your investment of time and social capital.
About Katherine Wikoff
I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
Wow! I had no idea these things even existed. The internet and the social media has created a whole new (or maybe not so new) set of shady schemes and good ideas gone awry.
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I know. I’ll say this for the human race: we certainly are inventive! Now if we could only think things through as easily as we think things up . . .
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