{"product_id":"9781137499998","title":"Digital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience: Everyone’s a Critic","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDigital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience: Everyone’s a Critic\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFalero, Sandra M.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this study, Falero explores how online communities of participatory audiences have helped to re-define authorship and audience in the digital age. Using over a decade of ethnographic research, \u003ci\u003eDigital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rise and fall of a site that some heralded as ground zero for the democratization of television criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTelevision Without Pity\u003c\/i\u003e was a web community devoted to criticizing television programs. Their mission was to hold television networks and writers accountable by critiquing their work and “not just passively sitting around watching.” When executive producer Aaron Sorkin entered \u003ci\u003eTelevision Without Pity’s\u003c\/i\u003e message boards on \u003ci\u003eThe West Wing\u003c\/i\u003e in late 2001, he was surprised to find the discussion populated by critics rather than fans. His anger over the criticism he found there wound up becoming a storyline in a subsequent episode of \u003ci\u003eThe West Wing\u003c\/i\u003e wherein web critics weredescribed as “obese shut-ins who lounge around in muumuus and chain-smoke Parliaments.” This book examines the culture at Television Without Pity and will appeal to students and researchers interested in audiences, digital culture and television studies.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-06-29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137499998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-50000-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 191\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752412475532,"sku":"9781137499998","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137499998.jpg?v=1775916233","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137499998","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}