What do the terms crowdfunding and crowdsourcing mean?

Crowdfunding is where people donate money to producers so they can fund a project that they shared on a crowdfunding site such as kickstarter. 

Crowdsourcing is the process of gathering staff and professionals to help make your products. An example  of this is the website Linkedin. 

An electronic agora is an online meeting place. This can be project management tools such as Microsoft Teams or social media.

Web utopianism is the idea that using social media is beneficial for humanity. 

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