Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 19, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9783319312552
Description: 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.