The Decline of Public Access and Neo-Liberal Media Regimes

Contents
Chapter 1: Public Access in Decline
	The Limits of Technological Determinism
	Technology and Social Construction
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Frankfurt School and Its Aftermath
	An Excursus on the Frankfurt School
	The Limits of the Frankfurt School’s Analysis
	The Political: Horkheimer to Habermas
	The Public Sphere in Habermas and Beyond
	Critics of the Public Sphere
		Habermasian Revisions
	Civil Society
	Participatory Democracy
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Public Interest Standards from Radio to Public Television
	The Rise of Radio and Telecommunication and Public Interest
	The Regulatory Context
	Broadcast Regulation
	Radio Publics: Democratic Potentials?
	Democratizing Media
	From Pacifica to PBS: The Rise of Public Interest Media and Civil Society
	The Critique of the Network Model
	From the Wasteland to the Promised Land
	Network Television and the Portrayal of American Life
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: The Emergence of Public Access Television
	Access to Democracy
		Public Access Begins
	Participatory Democracy or the Technological Sublime?
	Shimmering Blue Skies: The Promise of Technology
	Participatory Policymaking in the Formation of Public Access
	Funding Issues
	Access Cleavages: Cracks in the Foundation
	Legal Problems
	Precarious Foundations
	Access Success and Challenges
	Local Programming Success
	Governmental Access
	Socially Engaged Media
	Wayne’s World: Changing Conceptions of Public Access
	Who Watches Public Access?
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Neoliberalism: The Decline of Public Obligation
	Neoliberalism
	The Rise of a New Orthodoxy
	A New Consensus?
	Delayed Crises: Streeck’s Analyses
	Political Thought in Neoliberalism
	Neoliberalism and the Entrepreneurial Self
	The Contradictions of Neoliberalism
	The Colonization of the Lifeworld
	The Decline of Public Interest Obligations
	Cloudy Horizon’s for Blue Skies
	ALEC and Cable Franchising
	Channel Slamming
	Relaxing Ownership Rules
	Market Failures
	Speech Rights in Neoliberalism
	Is Censorship Necessary
	The Halleck Case and the Challenges to the Public Forum Conception of Access
	The Aftermath of Halleck
	Neoliberal Deregulation Extended: The Communications Act of 1996 and Beyond
	The Privatization of Public Space
	Public Sphere in Neoliberalism
	The Public Sphere. Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector
	Putting It All Together: Depoliticization
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Access Under Attack: Some Examples from the Field
	Artificial Austerity
	Austerity and Access
	Access Closing or Service Reduction
	Fragile Franchises
	Narratives of Decline
	Censorship of Public Access: Political and Cultural
	Professional Associations
	The Information Needs of Communities?
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Internet Democracy vs. Public Access
	Cybernetic Utopians: Romancing the Computers
	The Consequences of Esoteric Community
		Social Theorists and the Internet
	Radical Democracy on the Internet
	The Debate over Radical Media Are Social Media “Community Media”
		The Internet and the Social Context
	Can Social Media Serve as a Public Sphere?
	Political Economy of the Internet from Public to Private
	Facebook: Privacy and Publicity
	Data Collection and Privacy
	All the (Fake) News that Fits
	How Emancipatory Are Social Movements? The Occupy Movement as a Case Study of Internet Activism?
	Proprietary Publics?
	Facebook and Twitter Pages as Public Forums?
	YouTube and Social Media vs. (Public) Television: Public Forum
	The Need for a General Public Sphere
	General Publics Revisited
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: A Future for Public Access?
Author Index
Subject Index