Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference : Academic MindTrek '15 |
| Editors | Markku Turunen |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Pages | 183-190 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978145039483 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 19th Academic Mindtrek Conference 2015 - Solo Sokos Hotel, Tampere, Finland Duration: 22 Sep 2015 → 24 Sep 2015 Conference number: 19 http://mindtrek.tietovisio.com/ |
Conference
| Conference | 19th Academic Mindtrek Conference 2015 |
|---|---|
| Number | 19 |
| Location | Solo Sokos Hotel |
| Country | Finland |
| City | Tampere |
| Period | 22/09/2015 → 24/09/2015 |
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Keywords
- Crowdfunding
- Data extraction
- Indiegogo
- Entrepreneur
- Crawling
- Scraping
- Computational social science
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Approach For Investigating Crowdfunding Campaigns With Platform Data : Case Indiegogo. / Huhtamäki, Jukka; Lasrado, Lester; Menon, Karan; Kärkkäinen, Hannu ; Jussila, Jari.
Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference: Academic MindTrek '15. ed. / Markku Turunen. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 183-190.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
TY - GEN
T1 - Approach For Investigating Crowdfunding Campaigns With Platform Data
T2 - Case Indiegogo
AU - Huhtamäki, Jukka
AU - Lasrado, Lester
AU - Menon, Karan
AU - Kärkkäinen, Hannu
AU - Jussila, Jari
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Crowdfunding via the internet is a relatively new phenomenon in research and gaining momentum currently. While taking a data-driven approach into investigating the properties and dynamics of crowdfunding campaigns would allow the use of computational social science in investigations on crowdfunding, existing data-driven research on crowdfunding remains very limited. This is particularly true on the level of individual funder data. In this study, we contribute to the empirical body of knowledge on crowdfunding by introducing Indiegogo as a data source and, more specifically, the development and implementation of a crawler and scraper for accessing Indiegogo campaign data, and sharing this openly for other researchers. Due to the extremely dynamic and rapidly increasing amount of crowdfunding data in terms of the number of crowdfunding campaigns and the available investment and individual investor data, we believe our approach is useful for supporting public and open data-driven research, instead of providing merely a static data set.
AB - Crowdfunding via the internet is a relatively new phenomenon in research and gaining momentum currently. While taking a data-driven approach into investigating the properties and dynamics of crowdfunding campaigns would allow the use of computational social science in investigations on crowdfunding, existing data-driven research on crowdfunding remains very limited. This is particularly true on the level of individual funder data. In this study, we contribute to the empirical body of knowledge on crowdfunding by introducing Indiegogo as a data source and, more specifically, the development and implementation of a crawler and scraper for accessing Indiegogo campaign data, and sharing this openly for other researchers. Due to the extremely dynamic and rapidly increasing amount of crowdfunding data in terms of the number of crowdfunding campaigns and the available investment and individual investor data, we believe our approach is useful for supporting public and open data-driven research, instead of providing merely a static data set.
KW - Crowdfunding
KW - Data extraction
KW - Indiegogo
KW - Entrepreneur
KW - Crawling
KW - Scraping
KW - Computational social science
KW - Crowdfunding
KW - Data extraction
KW - Indiegogo
KW - Entrepreneur
KW - Crawling
KW - Scraping
KW - Computational social science
U2 - 10.1145/2818187.2818289
DO - 10.1145/2818187.2818289
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978145039483
SP - 183
EP - 190
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
A2 - Turunen, Markku
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
CY - New York
ER -