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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power
Chapter 1: Histories of Video Power
Chapter 2: Liberalism and Broadcast Politics
Chapter 3: Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers
Chapter 4: Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet
Chapter 5: Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth
Chapter 6: Silophication of Media Industries
Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Terminal Video
Chapter 8: Towards the Beginning of a New Participatory Culture