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Technoliberalism and the end of participatory culture in the United States / Adam Fish.
LIBRA JC574.2 .F57 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fish, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--United States--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Liberalism--United States--Philosophy.
- Liberalism.
- Liberalism--Philosophy.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 217 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: liberalism and video power
- Histories of video power
- Liberalism and broadcast politics
- Corporate liberalism and video producers
- Technoliberalism and the origins of the internet
- Technoliberalism and the convergence myth
- Silophication of media industries
- Neoliberalism and terminal video
- Toward the beginning of a new participatory culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3319312553
- 9783319312552
- OCLC:
- 939532201
- Publisher Number:
- 9783319312552
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