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Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections
Third World Quarterly ( IF 2.255 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 , DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1947137
Shonali Ayesha Banerjee 1
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Abstract

Recently emerged as transformative fundraising tools for development causes, crowdfunding platforms leverage the ‘feelingful ties’ that connect individuals in pursuit of non-governmental organisation (NGO) fundraising. Focussing on research conducted in 2018 with Indian platform LetzChange, this article frames crowdfunding platforms as ‘intimate technologies for development’, exploring how they leverage different forms of social and digital capital from their NGO partners to shape power relations within the development sector. By examining how crowdfunding platforms train local NGO staff to market their projects in digitally affective ways on social media, I demonstrate the influence of modern technological tools that recreate affective social bonds and social capital in digital spaces for the purpose of mobilising donors. I show how NGO staff must navigate the complicated landscape of social, digital and financial inequalities created within the crowdfunding process. Through analysis of specific digital fundraising practices, I reveal how LetzChange compels its NGO partners to invest emotional labour into crowdfunding campaigns, inevitably creating apprehension from staff around the depletion of social capital. I argue that affective digital practices like crowdfunding fall short of their inclusive aims and reinforce existing top-down power relations in the development sector by financially instrumentalising the interpersonal connections of NGO staff.



中文翻译:

情感发展的亲密技术:众筹平台如何将人际关系商品化

摘要

最近作为发展事业的变革性筹款工具出现,众筹平台利用“情感纽带”将个人联系起来,以追求非政府组织 (NGO) 筹款。本文重点关注 2018 年与印度平台 LetzChange 进行的研究,将众筹平台定义为“促进发展的亲密技术”,探索它们如何利用来自非政府组织合作伙伴的不同形式的社会和数字资本来塑造发展部门内的权力关系。通过研究众筹平台如何培训当地非政府组织工作人员在社交媒体上以数字情感方式推销他们的项目,我展示了现代技术工具的影响,这些工具在数字空间中重建情感社会纽带和社会资本,以动员捐助者。我将展示非政府组织工作人员必须如何应对在众筹过程中造成的社会、数字和金融不平等的复杂局面。通过对具体数字筹款实践的分析,我揭示了 LetzChange 如何迫使其 NGO 合作伙伴将情感劳动投入到众筹活动中,不可避免地引起员工对社会资本枯竭的担忧。我认为,像众筹这样的情感数字实践达不到它们的包容性目标,并通过在财务上利用非政府组织工作人员的人际关系来加强发展部门现有的自上而下的权力关系。我揭示了 LetzChange 如何迫使其 NGO 合作伙伴将情感劳动投入到众筹活动中,这不可避免地会引起员工对社会资本枯竭的担忧。我认为,像众筹这样的情感数字实践达不到它们的包容性目标,并通过在财务上利用非政府组织工作人员的人际关系来加强发展部门现有的自上而下的权力关系。我揭示了 LetzChange 如何迫使其 NGO 合作伙伴将情感劳动投入到众筹活动中,这不可避免地会引起员工对社会资本枯竭的担忧。我认为,像众筹这样的情感数字实践达不到它们的包容性目标,并通过在财务上利用非政府组织工作人员的人际关系来加强发展部门现有的自上而下的权力关系。

更新日期:2021-07-14
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