Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

By Adam Fish

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319810014
• ISBN13: 9783319810010
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"