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Participatory Television: Convergence, Crowdsourcing, and Neoliberalism

Author(s) -

Fish Adam

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

communication, culture & critique

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1753-9137

pISSN - 1753-9129

DOI - 10.1111/cccr.12016

Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , crowdsourcing , convergence (economics) , citizen journalism , sociology , media studies , participatory culture , fish <actinopterygii> , social science , political science , law , economics , economic growth , fishery , biology

In this article, I assess theories of Internet‐enabled public participation as they have been devised to explain the audience participatory projects of Current TV , a global cable and satellite television and Internet video network once partially programmed by nonfiction videos submitted by viewers. I explore how each authors' theory of participation—convergence (H. Jenkins, 2006), crowdsourcing (J. Howe, 2008), and neoliberal participation (J. Hands, 2011)—variously fails and succeeds to historically and culturally situate Current TV within its sociocultural context as a mixed mission and market digital social entrepreneur .

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