Real Time Charitable Giving: Why Mobile Phone Users Texted Millions of Dollars in Aid to Haiti Earthquake Relief and How They Got Their Friends to Do the Same

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smith,Aaron (Author)
    Format:
    Pamphlet
    Publication Date:
    2012-01-12
    URL:
    https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/political-social-justice/docs/real-time-charitable-giving-berkman.pdf
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Haiti, Social conditions, Natural disasters, Internet, Humanitarian assistance, *Adults, Disaster relief, Information technology, Cellular phones, and Mobile communication systems
    Notes:
    25 p., Charitable donations from mobile phones have grown more common in recent years. Two thirds (64%) of American adults now use text messaging, and 9% have texted a charitable donation from their mobile phone. The first-ever, in-depth study on mobile donors, which analyzed the "Text to Haiti" campaign after the 2010 earthquake -- finds that these contributions were often spur-of-the-moment decisions that spread virally through friend networks.

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