An approach to the effects and characteristics of political participation through donations in political crowdfunding campaigns in Spain

  1. González-Cacheda, Bruno 1
  2. Cancela Outeda, Celso 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
    info

    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales

ISSN: 1549-2230

Ano de publicación: 2024

Título do exemplar: Right to rage: Subjectivity and activism

Volume: 21

Número: 1

Páxinas: 139-148

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5209/TEKN.87237 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Outras publicacións en: Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales

Resumo

This work is structured around two exploratory objectives. Firstly, it aims to analyse the effects of connective participation and consumption in which donations in political crowdfunding campaigns can be framed. Secondly, it will study the characteristics and socio-demographic profile of the people who donate to political crowdfunding campaigns. In order to obtain information, we have developed a questionnaire that has resulted in a non-probabilistic purposive sample of one hundred and twenty-five valid and complete responses. The paper closes with a discussion and the presentation of two hypotheses that reflect the main findings of this exploratory study. On the one hand, the characteristics and profile of the participants would be predominantly male, middle-aged (thirty-six to fifty years old), with a high level of formal education (university studies) and a medium income level. On the other hand, the participation analysed is hegemonic among activists with experience and commitment. This fact could reflect an increase in participatory inequalities between participatory and nonparticipatory people as a consequence of the characteristics of the forms of connective action and consumption. 

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Anduiza, Eva, Cantijoch, Marta, and Gallego, Aina (2009). Political participation and the Internet: A field essay. Information, Communication & Society 12(6), 860-878. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180802282720
  • Bauman, Zygmunt (2007). Vida de consumo. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
  • Bennett, Lance and Segerberg, Alexandra (2012). Digital media and the personalization of collective action: Social technology and the organization of protests against the global economic crisis. Information, Communication & Society 14(6), 770-799. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.579141
  • Brady, Henry, Verba, Sidney and Schlozman, Kay (1995). Beyond SES: A resource model of political participation, American political science review 89(2), 271-294. https://doi.org/10.2307/2082425
  • Coffé, Hilde and Bolzendahl, Catherine (2010). Same game, different rules? Gender differences in political participation, Sex roles, 62(5), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-009-9729-y
  • Copeland, Lauren (2014). Value change and political action: Postmaterialism, political consumerism, and political participation. American Politics Research 42(2), 257-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X13494
  • Ferrer, Mariona, Medina, Luis and Torcal, Mariano (2006). La participación política: factores explicativos. En: J. R. Montero, J. Font y M. Torcal (eds.), Ciudadanos, asociaciones y participación en España. CIS.
  • Gallego, Aina (2008). Unequal political participation in Europe, International Journal of Sociology 37(4), 10-25. https://doi.org/10.2753/IJS0020-7659370401
  • Gil-Moreno, Elena (2017). Nuevos activismos sociales en la era digital: de las masas al “crowd”. Política y Sociedad 54(1), 191-209. https://doi.org/10.5209/POSO.48914
  • Hoffmann, Christian and Lutz, Christoph (2019). Digital divides in political participation: The mediating role of social media self-efficacy and privacy concerns, Policy & Internet 13(1), 6-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.225
  • Heger, Katharina and Hoffmann, Christian (2021). Feminism! What is it good for? The role of feminism and political self-efficacy in women’s online political participation, Social Science Computer Review 39(2), 226-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319865
  • Johansson, Håkan, Scaramuzzino, Roberto and Wennerhag, Magnus (2019). Social Movements and Interest Groups Compared. How Organisational Type Matters for Explaining Swedish Organisations’ Advocacy Strategies. Partecipazione e conflitto 12(2), 353-381. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v12i2p353
  • Jovanović, Tanja (2019). Crowdfunding: What Do We Know So Far?. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 16(1), 1950009. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219877019500093
  • Norris, Pippa (2001). Democratic phoenix: Reinventing political activism. Cambridge University Press.
  • Prakash, Aseem and Kay, Mary (2012). Advocacy organizations and collective action. In: A. Prakash and M. Kay (eds.), Advocacy organizations and collective action (pp. 1-28). Cambridge University Press.
  • Pfanzelt, Hannah and Spies, Dennis (2019). The gender gap in youth political participation: evidence from Germany, Political Research Quarterly 72(1), 34-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918775249
  • Putnam, Robert (2003). El declive del capital social: Un estudio internacional sobre las sociedades y el sentido comunitario. Galaxia Gutenberg.
  • Ritter, Michael. and Solt, Frederick (2019). Economic inequality and campaign participation, Social Science Quarterly 100(3), 678-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12605
  • Ruess, Christina, Hoffmann, Christian, Boulianne, Shelley and Heger, Katharina. (2023). Online political participation: the evolution of a concept. Information, Communication & Society, 26 (8), 1495-1512. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013919
  • Sartori, Laura, Tuorto, Dario and Ghigi, Rossella (2017). The social roots of the gender gap in political participation: The role of situational and cultural constraints in Italy, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 24(3), 221-247. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx008
  • Schlozman, Kay, Verba, Sidney and Brady, Henry (2010). Weapon of the strong? Participatory inequality and the Internet, Perspectives on Politics 8(2), 487-509.
  • Sedlitzky, Raphael and Franz, Yvonne (2019). ‘What if we all chip in?’ Civic crowdfunding as alternative financing for urban development projects. Built Environment 45(1), 26-44. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.45.1.26
  • Shirky, Clay (2011). The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and political change. Foreign Affairs 90(1), 28-41.
  • Teorell, Jan, Torcal, Mariano, and Montero, José Ramón (2007). Political participation: Mapping the terrain. In: J. van Deth, J. R. Montero and A. Westholm (eds.), Citizenship and involvement in European democracies: A comparative analysis (pp. 334-357). Routledge.
  • Valenzuela, Sebastián, Correa, Teresa and Gil de Zuñiga, Homero (2017). Ties, likes, and tweets: Using strong and weak ties to explain differences in protest participation across Facebook and Twitter use. Political Communication 35(1), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2017.1334726
  • Van Deth, Jan (2012). New modes of participation and norms of citizenship. In: J. van Deth and W. Maloney (eds.), New participatory dimensions in civil society: Professionalization and individualized collective action (pp. 231-242). Routledge.
  • Van Deursen, Alexander, Helsper, Ellen, Eynon, Rebecca and Van Dijk, Jan (2017). The compoundness and sequentiality of digital inequality. International Journal of Communication 11, 452-473.
  • Van Laer, Jeroen (2010). Activists online and offline: The internet as an information channel for protest demonstrations. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 15(3), 347-366. https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.15.3.8028585100245801
Fonte de datos: Dialnet