Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

by Adam Fish

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319810010
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/17/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.- Postscript.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Adam Fish's ambitious book is at once empirically and theoretically incisive; it charts the rise and fall of 'technoliberalism' as it confronts generation after generation of hopeful new media and their relentless incorporation within capital. It is an essential and creative clarification of the tangle of contemporary technologies, political theories of freedom and equality, and the desires involved in making and consuming media.” (Christopher Kelty, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)