Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South: Connecting, Microfinancing, and Gaming for Change

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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.

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How do internet technologies help those who want to help the world's poor In this exciting and highly original new work, Radhika Gajjala explores this question by bringing together concepts and theoretical frameworks rarely placed in conversation with one another, namely digital media technologies and philanthropy. It will shift conversations at the intersections of postcolonial studies, development studies, affect studies, race and technology studies, and gender and globalization studies. -- Srila Roy, University of the Witwatersrand
Radhika Gajjala makes a timely argument about digital subalternity showing how the subaltern studies project has now shifted its sites and the question of diversity is now an infrastructural issue as much as it is a dialogue on inclusion. The intersection and the interstices of the two are how Gajjala defines digital subaltern 2.0. Using online philanthropy websites as their case studies, the authors put pressure on the market-economy driven ideologies of inclusion. This book should initiate lively and vigorous debates on possibilities, limitations, and challenges of digital spaces. -- Nirmala Menon, Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South: Connecting, Microfinancing, and Gaming for Change is an examination of networked publics and relationships in philanthropy 2.0 platforms. What does the development of digital philanthropy mean for community, inclusion/exclusion, and the digital contexts of subalternity What are the implications for the future of microfinance This work makes a valuable contribution to the fields of philanthropy, international development, and communication; pushing the study of philanthropy into a new and exciting area previously under-studied. This book would serve as an excellent text in upper level courses in those fields. -- Shannon K. Orr, Bowling Green State University

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Radhika Gajjala is professor of media and communication at Bowling Green State University.