Carolina Dalla Chiesa
Biographic Data
| ID | 888104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolina Dalla Chiesa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolina Dalla |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiesa |
| SIGNATURE | CHIESA C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0452-6045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between a rock and a hard place: How artists seek optimal distinctiveness in grant acquisition
Artists today are multiple job holders but also multiple grant seekers, piecing together diverse funding sources to realize their projects. Securing funding requires more than artistic merit: artists must balance artistic autonomy with the heteronomous demands of funders, who also emphasize accountability, efficiency, and measurable outcomes. This article examines how artists navigate these demands through a six-month study of ten artists, combin…
From peers to fans: How crowdfunding reconfigures capital mobilization and conversion for DIY musicians
This article examines how digital fundraising reconfigures cultural entrepreneurship among DIY musicians. Through interviews with Dutch DIY musicians who have successfully used crowdfunding and representatives from two platforms, we demonstrate how crowdfunding enables musicians to mobilize Bourdieu's alternative forms of capital and convert them into economic capital. While social capital remains a key driver of economic capital in crowdfunding,…
Gigging in the gig economy: The labour of live music in a platformed circuit of commerce
This article explores how musicians navigate live performance within the digital gig economy by examining creative labour on Twitch. Drawing on economic sociology, we conceptualise livestreamed performance as a distinct circuit of commerce in which artists and audiences negotiate value, intimacy, and exchange in real time. Based on a video analysis of 20 top-rated Twitch music streamers, we identify three interrelated features shaping this circui…
Bridging the urban-digital divide: Crowdfunding as an online middleground space
The paper attempts to provide a critique of the premise of territoriality in creative cities. A validated hypothesis in the literature on economic geography is that the density and “territoriality” of members of the so-called "creative class" influence the volume of creative goods and services produced in cities. This hypothesis gave rise to several sub-related themes, such as the premise that cities are, par excellence, a place where middlegroun…
Communicating identity: How the symbolic meaning of goods creates different market types
This paper argues that the different symbolic meanings of goods give rise to three institutionally different market types. We start from the realization that consumption has symbolic meaning, which individuals use to communicate and construct their identity to their social networks. We argue that firm behavior (including size, pricing and marketing strategies) must be congruent with the symbolic meaning of goods. We distinguish between two styliz…
The Artists’ Critique on Crowdfunding and Online Gift-Giving
Crowdfunding is known as a funding solution for creative projects. Creators and business ventures consider crowdfunding as an outlet for promoting creative projects and raising funds. The literature and the media coverage overemphasized its benefits without taking into account key limitations for specific sectors. Based on exploratory, qualitative data gathering, this article investigates what artists expect from crowdfunding and what results fro…
The art of crowdfunding arts and innovation: The cultural economic perspective
Crowdfunding is an innovation from the cultural sector that has found broad applications in other aspects of the economy. We document that cultural economics provides a refined structure to explain much of the crowdfunding phenomenon, which will be useful for any research on this topic. Based on central themes of cultural economics (including quality and demand uncertainty, socially interdependent demand formation, public good attributes, and int…
Matchfunding goes digital: The benefits of matching policymaking with the crowd’s wisdom
Markets and governments have been increasingly intertwined when it comes to funding for the arts. This is the case with matchfunding schemes in which governments explore the crowd’s validation by providing funds to successful cultural projects. By matching public funds with the “crowd”, four parties benefit from this process: the artists, the platform, the donors, and the public institutions. Artists benefit from accessing more funds and credibil…
Crowdfunding artists: Beyond Match-Making on Platforms
This article analyzes the role that crowdfunding plays for artists who create small-scale projects. We find that artists struggle to reach new audiences and, thus, mainly use this funding tool to transform monetary gifts into reputation for their careers. Crowdfunding platforms are believed to lower transaction costs while allowing for more direct engagement between founders and funders. Instead, our study demonstrates that artists use the platfo…
What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018)
The media landscape has drastically changed during the past decade with the emergence of new models and platforms allowing citizens to become amateur journalists and news publishers. Alongside traditional players, newcomers and do-it-yourself initiatives emerged in the market with the help of platforms that seek to connect with a potential audience and offer alternative funding means, such as crowdfunding. Success cases and innovative examples ab…
Incentives Matter, But What Do They Mean? Understanding the Meaning of Market Coordination
This article argues that the discussion of incentives in economics neglects a crucial question: why are some incentives felt as powerful reasons to alter actions, while other incentives have little, or even counterproductive, effect? We argue that an answer to this question can be found in recent empirical work in economic sociology, institutional economics and Austrian economics. This work studies the meaning of incentives in particular social s…
Nosso umbigo tá enterrado aqui: Memória e trabalho em uma fábrica de porcelanas de Porto Alegre
Este trabalho objetiva compreender como as narrativas acerca dos sujeitos e dos objetos são ressignificados a partir do trabalho da memória considerando seus recortes à luz do momento presente. Para tanto, foram entrevistados os três sujeitos que partilham deste espaço atualmente, os dois sócios e uma funcionária aposentada. Os achados de campo apontam para uma narrativa da memória imbricada nas experiências vivenciadas com a produção de estatuet…
Crowdfunding artists: Beyond Match-Making on Platforms
This article analyzes the role that crowdfunding plays for artists who create small-scale projects. We find that artists struggle to reach new audiences and, thus, mainly use this funding tool to transform monetary gifts into reputation for their careers. Crowdfunding platforms are believed to lower transaction costs while allowing for more direct engagement between founders and funders. Instead, our study demonstrates that artists use the platfo…
Nosso umbigo tá enterrado aqui: Memória e trabalho em uma fábrica de porcelanas de Porto Alegre
Este trabalho objetiva compreender como as narrativas acerca dos sujeitos e dos objetos são ressignificados a partir do trabalho da memória considerando seus recortes à luz do momento presente. Para tanto, foram entrevistados os três sujeitos que partilham deste espaço atualmente, os dois sócios e uma funcionária aposentada. Os achados de campo apontam para uma narrativa da memória imbricada nas experiências vivenciadas com a produção de estatuet…
Incentives Matter, But What Do They Mean? Understanding the Meaning of Market Coordination
This article argues that the discussion of incentives in economics neglects a crucial question: why are some incentives felt as powerful reasons to alter actions, while other incentives have little, or even counterproductive, effect? We argue that an answer to this question can be found in recent empirical work in economic sociology, institutional economics and Austrian economics. This work studies the meaning of incentives in particular social s…
What is the shape of crowdfunding calls for Journalism? A content analysis of projects on Kickstarter (2010-2018)
The media landscape has drastically changed during the past decade with the emergence of new models and platforms allowing citizens to become amateur journalists and news publishers. Alongside traditional players, newcomers and do-it-yourself initiatives emerged in the market with the help of platforms that seek to connect with a potential audience and offer alternative funding means, such as crowdfunding. Success cases and innovative examples ab…
Crowdfunding artists: Beyond Match-Making on Platforms
This article analyzes the role that crowdfunding plays for artists who create small-scale projects. We find that artists struggle to reach new audiences and, thus, mainly use this funding tool to transform monetary gifts into reputation for their careers. Crowdfunding platforms are believed to lower transaction costs while allowing for more direct engagement between founders and funders. Instead, our study demonstrates that artists use the platfo…
The Artists’ Critique on Crowdfunding and Online Gift-Giving
Crowdfunding is known as a funding solution for creative projects. Creators and business ventures consider crowdfunding as an outlet for promoting creative projects and raising funds. The literature and the media coverage overemphasized its benefits without taking into account key limitations for specific sectors. Based on exploratory, qualitative data gathering, this article investigates what artists expect from crowdfunding and what results fro…
The art of crowdfunding arts and innovation: The cultural economic perspective
Crowdfunding is an innovation from the cultural sector that has found broad applications in other aspects of the economy. We document that cultural economics provides a refined structure to explain much of the crowdfunding phenomenon, which will be useful for any research on this topic. Based on central themes of cultural economics (including quality and demand uncertainty, socially interdependent demand formation, public good attributes, and int…
Matchfunding goes digital: The benefits of matching policymaking with the crowd’s wisdom
Markets and governments have been increasingly intertwined when it comes to funding for the arts. This is the case with matchfunding schemes in which governments explore the crowd’s validation by providing funds to successful cultural projects. By matching public funds with the “crowd”, four parties benefit from this process: the artists, the platform, the donors, and the public institutions. Artists benefit from accessing more funds and credibil…
Bridging the urban-digital divide: Crowdfunding as an online middleground space
The paper attempts to provide a critique of the premise of territoriality in creative cities. A validated hypothesis in the literature on economic geography is that the density and “territoriality” of members of the so-called "creative class" influence the volume of creative goods and services produced in cities. This hypothesis gave rise to several sub-related themes, such as the premise that cities are, par excellence, a place where middlegroun…
Communicating identity: How the symbolic meaning of goods creates different market types
This paper argues that the different symbolic meanings of goods give rise to three institutionally different market types. We start from the realization that consumption has symbolic meaning, which individuals use to communicate and construct their identity to their social networks. We argue that firm behavior (including size, pricing and marketing strategies) must be congruent with the symbolic meaning of goods. We distinguish between two styliz…
Between a rock and a hard place: How artists seek optimal distinctiveness in grant acquisition
Artists today are multiple job holders but also multiple grant seekers, piecing together diverse funding sources to realize their projects. Securing funding requires more than artistic merit: artists must balance artistic autonomy with the heteronomous demands of funders, who also emphasize accountability, efficiency, and measurable outcomes. This article examines how artists navigate these demands through a six-month study of ten artists, combin…
From peers to fans: How crowdfunding reconfigures capital mobilization and conversion for DIY musicians
This article examines how digital fundraising reconfigures cultural entrepreneurship among DIY musicians. Through interviews with Dutch DIY musicians who have successfully used crowdfunding and representatives from two platforms, we demonstrate how crowdfunding enables musicians to mobilize Bourdieu's alternative forms of capital and convert them into economic capital. While social capital remains a key driver of economic capital in crowdfunding,…
Gigging in the gig economy: The labour of live music in a platformed circuit of commerce
This article explores how musicians navigate live performance within the digital gig economy by examining creative labour on Twitch. Drawing on economic sociology, we conceptualise livestreamed performance as a distinct circuit of commerce in which artists and audiences negotiate value, intimacy, and exchange in real time. Based on a video analysis of 20 top-rated Twitch music streamers, we identify three interrelated features shaping this circui…
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cultural economics (3 works)