Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

ISBN-13: 9783319312552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 217 str.

Adam Fish

Opis

This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television's history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies--cable, satellite, and the internet--provided brief openings for amateur and activist engagement with television. This book elaborates on this history by using ethnographic data to build a new iteration of liberalism, technoliberalism, which sees Silicon Valley technology and the free market of Hollywood end the need for a politics of participation.

Spis treści

Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power

Chapter 1: Histories of Video Power

Chapter 2: Liberalism and Broadcast Politics

Chapter 3: Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers

Chapter 4: Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet

Chapter 5: Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth

Chapter 6: Silophication of Media Industries

Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Terminal Video

Chapter 8: Towards the Beginning of a New Participatory Culture

O autorze

Adam Fish is Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK. As a cultural anthropologist, he examines digital industries that exercise their powers of persuasion and digital activists who challenge those powers. Much of his research focuses on the industry and activism surrounding digital video, of which he is both a critic and practitioner. 

Blurb

This book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies provided brief openings, but these were often short-lived. This book elaborate on this history by using ethnographic data upon a new iteration of liberalism, technoliberalism, which sees Silicon Valley technology and the free market of Hollywood end the need for a politics of participation.