Thanks for your post Tim, as you approach this discussion from a different angle than those previous posts to the question. The takeaway from your contribution, for me, was your mention of the temporal nature of academic study. You rightly bring to mind a ...
Thank you for your post Robert! Prosumers —those who create videos of themselves to not only consume but to produce, enjoying the whole process of production and creation—also use these videos to display their skills, their place and space, their position ...
Thanks for your post Rebecca, you offer an enlightening account of your experience. My take away from your post reflects what I feel has been a consistent theme developing throughout this discussion...both theoretical and anecdotal. " The university ...
Jennifer, thanks for this post. You reference Carly Kocurek and Allyson Whipple's crowdfunding campaign and echoed Carly's own experience with verbal abuse that occurred as a result. And certainly, Sarkeesian's story has been well publicize ...
On the other hand, given that academics are already performing many labour for free, and the increasing precarity of academics in higher institutions, would a turn to crowdfunding for academic projects give university institutions further excuses to not s ...
Thank you for this contribution. It is promising to learn about initiatives such as Research My World which engage the public and bring awareness to community needs while also providing more opportunities for academic research. Your post evokes a number o ...
Robin, thanks for your post. I think that the questions you raise are important because they bring to the forefront the more complex, and in certain ways problematic, institutional practices and structures against which the crowdfunding process comes into ...
Dr. Wittkower, thanks for the post. I'd like to briefly address crowdfunding's potentially transformative role in the more broad academic culture. Your thoughts, along with Robin Wharton's, emphasize the problematic role/obstacles presented ...
Carly, thank you for your contribution. What I took from your post first and foremost was the reference to the unseen labor associated with crowdfunding which is generally left out of the celebratory rhetoric that often frames the process. Also, you make ...
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Time shifts and the ephemeral public
Communal org. within varying modes and spaces of prosumption.
Developing themes
Pedagogy
Money Will Talk
Practical vs Theoretical research and the public interest.
The hope of opportunities within rigid institutions.
Dr. Wittkower, thanks for the
Distractive Labor