The Culture Industry and Participatory Audiences

More about the book

The book critiques participatory media practices, highlighting how the culture industry shapes and controls moments of participation. It examines the creation of a web series in Australia aimed at a global audience, illustrating how participatory culture, while empowering media consumers to become producers, occurs within industry-controlled platforms. The analysis reveals that despite the potential for a utopian media engagement, actual participation is constrained by the architecture of the Internet and the structures of the culture industry.