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.
