Online Fundraising and Social Divisions
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DSW University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland
Submission date: 2024-10-15
Acceptance date: 2025-01-29
Publication date: 2025-03-17
Polish Sociological Review 2025;229(1):89-104
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The global village of networked relationships implies the digitalization of community activities. An example
of cultural mobilization that has recently migrated to the Internet is fundraising. Contemporary fundraising
platforms enable financing usually combined with communication: asynchronous or quasi-synchronous. Supporting
specific goals, individuals or groups can be a tool for building a multiplatform social identity—in particular
thanks to the possibility of sharing information about fundraising and discussing them in interactive media. Digitalized
financing is gaining dynamics, which can become a practice of building social divisions and fueling hatred.
Against the background of Social Identity Theory, this article focuses on distortions of fundraising culture. Drawing
on examples from Finland and Poland, this article takes up the characteristics of the negative dimension of
fundraising.