Analyzing the Spiritual Rhetoric of Kickstarter
This article considers the rhetoric of Kickstarter, a popular crowd-funding website. Using a modified spiritual quest theoretical framework, the project examines public statements and interviews from the Kickstarter co-founders, language from the site's about pages, and several specific Kic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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| In: |
Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-129 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Fundraising B Kickstarter B Religious Rhetoric B crowd-funding B Digital Religion B New Media B Philanthropy B Rhetoric |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This article considers the rhetoric of Kickstarter, a popular crowd-funding website. Using a modified spiritual quest theoretical framework, the project examines public statements and interviews from the Kickstarter co-founders, language from the site's about pages, and several specific Kickstarter projects. The article finds a certain spiritual rhetoric present on the website, a claim supported by evidence from three crowd-funding case studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.27.2.2862 |
