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 |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2015]
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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 |
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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 |