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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160755903321

Autore

Keltie Emma

Titolo

The Culture Industry and Participatory Audiences / / by Emma Keltie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319490281

3319490281

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 152 p.)

Disciplina

353.7

Soggetti

Cultural policy

Mass media - Political aspects

Culture

Australasia

Communication

Cultural Policy and Politics

Media Policy and Politics

Australasian Culture

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Culture Industry and Audience Agency -- 3. Agency in Practice: A Participatory Utopia -- 4. Fans: A Long History of Participation -- 5. Producing Culture: Australian Media and Creative Policy -- 6. Participation in Practice -- 7. Authorised Participation.-.

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers a discussion of participatory culture as a disruption to the previously held dominance of the culture industry, while also exploring the tensions created in this emerging media landscape through analysis and examination of the current Australian media policy, regulation, and content distribution landscape. The text argues that the culture industry colonises participatory cultural practices and absorbs them into the practices of the industry, to reveal that what emerges from this colonisation is an audience that misrecognises their



agency as participants in the production of culture. The discourse surrounding participatory culture positions the audience as active in cultural production and falsely emancipates them as consumers, with little acknowledgement of the exploitation of labour that is occurring. Keltie exposes how, as the culture industry folds participatory practices back into its own industry practices, audience participation, in effect, becomes authorised bythe culture industry. .