Technologies of political (socio-political) crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are analysed as modern approaches to make political dialogue and provide transparency of authorities. Justification for their use in socio-political sphere is being argued. Reasons that validate the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in policy as well as global and Ukrainian experience of their application are studied. The factors that affect the success of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects in political terms are identified.
The dynamics of changing forms of social protest as well as new, postmodern forms of political action at the example of Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 and Ukraine-Russia military confrontation in 2014 have been analysed in this article. It has been proved that modern ways of expressing protest differ from the old ones in the use of ironic slogans, performance, creativity and non-violent actions. Revolutionary war space is represented as the accumulation of many genres (photos, graffiti, political posters, installations, sculptures, cartoons, etc.). It has been proved that political action in the postmodern reality is provocative having at its base a game, ritual, and symbolism. The perception of political events through the prism of entertainment has been emphasised.
Political happening is analyzed as a protest form of political participation. The happening is the direction of the promotional art (actionism); this is a certain form of acts, actions, works in which artists are trying to attract viewers to the play. It is shown that peculiarity of political happening is not just sight, but outside spontaneous action (provoked, improvised, unpredictable and similar), participants of which are not only actors, but also completely random people.
In the article, the author elucidates the features of the postmodern approach to asserting the value of peace using the techniques of actionism (performance, happening, art installation, flash mob, etc.). Anti-war actionism is considered as an element of the system of sociopolitical actionism. A set of spectacular forms of non-violent public protest against armed aggression and its consequences are analyzed. The fact that today's anti-war actionism has gone beyond the narrow artistic environment and entered the broad social dimension is proved. The empirical basis for the conceptualization of anti-war actionism includes two groups of actions: (1) anti-war actions carried out since the 1960s in the United States and Western Europe; 2) anti-war actions carried out in various countries in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The author argues that anti-war actionism corresponds to its nature and purpose only if those who initiate and conduct actions are participant types of political culture. In other cases, only external form will be borrowed from actionism, but not content (pseudo-actionism). The symbolic language of anti-war actionism, which is based on objects, images related to the nature of war and its consequences, is investigated. The structure of anti-war actionism is determined: 1) professional actions of representatives of the artistic environment, which are elaborated in terms of artistic characteristics; 2) actions of public activists who use avant-garde artistic tools at the amateur level to organize and hold actions. The advantages and disadvantages of anti-war actionism as a technology of peace building are identified. The functions of anti-war actionism are determined.
Technologies of political (socio-political) crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are analysed as modern approaches to make political dialogue and provide transparency of authorities. Justification for their use in socio-political sphere is being argued. Reasons that validate the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in policy as well as global and Ukrainian experience of their application are studied. The factors that affect the success of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects in political terms are identified.
Technologies of political (socio-political) crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are analysed as modern approaches to make political dialogue and provide transparency of authorities. Justification for their use in socio-political sphere is being argued. Reasons that validate the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in policy as well as global and Ukrainian experience of their application are studied. The factors that affect the success of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects in political terms are identified.
The article analyzes the experience of Ukraine in the use of social and political crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding. These technologies are studied in the time period of 2013-2016 on the example of their application for the Revolution of Dignity and maintaining the country's defensive capacity in the course of the undeclared hybrid war with Russia. It is emphasized that it is through public initiatives that the vector of the state to its democratization and Euro-Atlantic cooperation has been modified. It is noted that the projects based on the "collective intellect" and popular investments have become an alternative to inefficient government activities to maintain the country's defensive capacity and support the military and internally displaced people.
