Full Description
Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South: Connecting, Microfinancing, and Gaming for Change offers a critical examination how online philanthropy operates through digital connectivity, affective networks of well-meaning digital givers, and the commodification of poverty through what is conceptualized as the "digital subaltern." Chapters examine a range of online philanthropy settings such as online microfinance platforms and games for change, with case studies revealing unseen problems in how digital inclusion and financialization are attempted through the joint forces of NGOization and ITization.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Digital Subalternity and Online Philanthropy
Section I:
1. Dotcom Entrepreneurs to Digital Philanthropists with Jeanette M. Dillon
2. NGOization and ITization Intersect Online
Section II:
Introduction to Section II
3. Staging the Subaltern Other and the Subaltern Self: Digital Labor and Digital Leisure in ICT4D with Dinah Tetteh and Anca Birzescu
4. Digital Materialities: Inclusion and Access with Dinah Tetteh and Anca Birzescu
5. Networked affect in Online Philanthropy with Jeanette Dillon and Anca Birzescu
6. The Gamification of Philanthropy 2.0 and Subaltern Masculinities with Erika Behrmann and Hannah Ackermans
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
