[Air-L] [Medianthro] New Book: Technoliberalism

Adam Fish rawbird at gmail.com
Sat May 13 15:31:42 PDT 2017


I agree. a gouging price by a rapacious press... but the book is good. here
is a link to the whole thing:

https://www.academia.edu/32381072/Technoliberalism_and_the_End_of_Participatory_Culture_in_the_United_States

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Britta Ohm <ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Thanks Adam, super interesting, I’d buy it instantly - but not at a
> whopping 96 Euros… what’s wrong with publishing that more and more books
> seem to be produced that nobody can afford in an increasingly precarious
> academe?
>
>
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> > Am 13.05.2017 um 11:42 schrieb Adam Fish <rawbird at gmail.com>:
> >
> > New Book: Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the
> > United States
> >
> >
> >
> > By Adam Fish
> >
> >
> >
> > Palgrave MacMillan
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Part 1:
> >
> > http://henryjenkins.org/2017/04/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> > promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> > adam-fish-part-one.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Part 2:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> > promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> > adam-fish-part-two.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Part 3:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-
> > promise-of-participatory-television-an-interview-with-
> > adam-fish-part-three.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Chapters Include:
> >
> >
> >
> > Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_1>
> >
> >
> >
> > Histories of Video Power
> >
> >
> >
> > Liberalism and Broadcast Politics
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_3>
> >
> >
> >
> > Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_4>
> >
> >
> >
> > Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_5>
> >
> >
> >
> > Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_6>
> >
> >
> >
> > Silophication of Media Industries
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_7>
> >
> >
> >
> > Neoliberalism and Terminal Video
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_8>
> >
> >
> >
> > Toward the Beginning of a New Participatory Culture
> > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31256-9_9>
> >
> >
> >
> > Review:
> >
> >
> >
> > “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)
> >
> >
> >
> > Publisher’s site: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319312552#reviews
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > ******************************************
> >
> > EASA Media Anthropology Network
> > http://www.media-anthropology.net
> >
> > For further information please contact:
> > Dr. John Postill
> > RMIT University, Melbourne
> > jrpostill at gmail.com
> >
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