[Air-L] [ecrea] New Book: Feminist Activism and Digital Networks

[Adam Fish]

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On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Adam Fish <rawbird at gmail.com> wrote:

> New Book: Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the
> United States
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> By Adam Fish
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> Palgrave MacMillan
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> 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.
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> Three-part interview with Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of
> Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern
> California, about Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture.
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> Part 1:
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> http://henryjenkins.org/2017/04/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> adam-fish-part-one.html
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> Part 2:
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> http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> adam-fish-part-two.html
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> Part 3:
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> http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> adam-fish-part-three.html
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> Chapters Include:
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> Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power
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> Histories of Video Power
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> Liberalism and Broadcast Politics
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> Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers
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> Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet
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> Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth
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> Silophication of Media Industries
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> Neoliberalism and Terminal Video
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> Toward the Beginning of a New Participatory Culture
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> Review:
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> “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)
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> Publisher’s site: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319312552#reviews
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> Adam Fish is cultural anthropologist, video producer, and senior lecturer
> in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. He employs
> ethnographic and creative methods to investigate how media technology and
> political power interconnect. Using theories from political economy and new
> materialism, he examines digital industries and digital activists.
> http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/about-us/people/adam-fish
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> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Carpentier Nico <
> nico.carpentier at vub.ac.be> wrote:
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>> "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and
>> Vulnerability”
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>> By Aristea Fotopoulou
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>> Palgrave Macmillan
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>> This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital
>> technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and
>> politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism. This
>> exciting text critically analyses the contradictions, tensions and
>> often-paradoxical aspects that characterize such politics, both in
>> relation to identity and to activist practice. Aristea Fotopoulou examines
>> how activists make claims about rights online, and how they negotiate
>> access, connectivity, openness and visibility in digital networks. Through
>> a triple focus on embodied media practices, labour and imaginaries, and
>> across the themes of bodily autonomy, pornography, reproduction, and queer
>> social life, she advocates a move away from understandings of digital
>> media technologies as intrinsically exploitative or empowering. By
>> reinstating the media as constant material agents in the process of
>> politicization, Fotopoulou creates a powerful text that appeals to
>> students and scholars of digital media, gender and sexuality, and readers
>> interested in the role of media technologies in activism.
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>> Table of Contents
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>> 1) Introduction: Conceptualising Feminist Activism and Digital Networks
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>> 2) Women’s Organisations and the Social Imaginary of Networked Feminism:
>> Digital and Networked by Default?
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>> 3) The Paradox of Feminism, Technology and Pornography: Value and
>> Biopolitics in Digital Culture
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>> 4) From Egg Donation to Fertility Apps: Feminist Knowledge Production and
>> Reproductive Rights
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>> 5) Space, Locality and Connectivity: The End of Identity Politics as We
>> Know It?
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>> 6) Epilogue: Looping Feminist Threads
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>> Endorsements
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>> "How are new forms of political subject and political practice possible?
>> The focus of cultural studies for decades, this question acquires new
>> urgency in the digital era with its radically new possibilities for acting
>> together and in view of each other. Aristea Fotopoulou¹s exciting book
>> explores, across diverse and imaginatively selected case studies, the
>> potential for feminist and queer activists to establish new ground and, in
>> the process, change our vision of what politics might be. Highly
>> recommended.”
>> (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
>> And author of "Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics after
>> Neoliberalism")
>> "What do feminism and queer activism mean in an era when digital
>> technologies are so intimately entangled with cultural, economic and
>> political life? In Feminist Activism and Digital Networks, Aristea
>> Fotopoulou gives us an original take on this question, steering a careful
>> course between celebration and despair, and offering nuanced discussions
>> of contemporary digital biopolitics from alt porn to fertility apps to
>> anarcho-queer placed-based interventions.”
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>> (Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK)
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>> “Feminist Activism and Digital Networks is an urgently needed antidote to
>> what Dr. Fotopoulou refers to as the invisibility of gender and sexuality
>> as embodied practices in communication studies and social movement studies
>> alike. Focusing on the lively and important forms of feminism occurring in
>> digital networked cultures as spaces of tension and contradiction,
>> possibilities and foreclosures, Dr. Fotopoulou brilliantly helps us
>> understand the complex nature of activism and connectivity in contemporary
>> feminist theory and activism. This book should be required reading for
>> social justice classrooms.”
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>> (Carol Stabile, University of Oregon, USA,
>> Managing Editor, Fembot Collective, Co-editor Ada: A Journal of Gender,
>> New Media, and Technology)
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>> About the Author
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>> Dr Aristea Fotopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications,
>> School of Media, University of Brighton, UK. She researches critical
>> aspects of digital culture, emerging technologies and social change.
>> Currently she writes about cultures, practices and subjectivities that
>> relate to self-tracking and big data, from a feminist perspective.
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>> Publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708
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