Crowdfunding Protests: Turkish Protesters Raise Over $100,000 To Buy NY Times Ad
from the what-a-world dept
There's been plenty of talk about how social media -- and specifically tools like Twitter and Facebook -- have been useful in organizing various protests around the world, but it's interesting to see how other popular tools are being used as well. For example, with the huge protests in Turkey, some of the protesters are using IndieGogo to finance a full-page ad in the NY Times to tell their story to the world. And it worked. Within a day, they'd raised the amount and it's continued to rise since then (and there are still weeks left). The NY Times has already accepted the ad as well. This strikes me as fascinating on a number of levels, because crowdfunding is just a different kind of platform -- and while most people just focus on its uses for buying products -- one of the key features is how it actually builds a community around the project in question. And, as such, you can see how it can also be such a powerful tool for building further community and support around a political campaign of sorts.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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it's nice to see
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Re: it's nice to see
You don't even pretend to read the articles, do you!
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I'll probably never see the ad, and I'll only know about it because I read it happened online. They can buy up the whole issue of the New York Times and pretty much nobody I know will see it.
So the only word they're really getting out is the internet talking about what they did, and not the ad itself.
Personally, I think it's a waste of money.
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1) Many who read the New York Times will not have been following the Turkish protest on the Net.
2) An advert in the New York time will probably make more of an impression on the Turkish Government stories on the Net.
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Weeks to go ?
And what is to become of the leftover money ?
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Re: Weeks to go ?
You put it in the fridge, and eat it at midnight after a couple days.
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Bizarrely focused on money not message.
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What a world ...
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