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Author:   Radhika Gajjala ,  Hannah Ackermans ,  Erika Behrmann ,  Anca Birzescu
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781498517386

ISBN 10:   1498517382
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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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

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.

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