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