Push the Button Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan

"Across a polymorphous array of new media engagements, Elizabeth Rodwell questions how and with what affects/effects television is being recrafted in Japan following the 'crisis' of news dissemination during 3.11. Attentively ethnographic and analytically astute, Push the Button explores the implications-political, social, and technological-of inviting viewers to interact so intimately with their televisual machines." - Anne Allison, author of (Being Dead Otherwise) "Based on solid fieldwork with excellent theoretical analysis, Push the Button provides a fascinating ethnographic overview of interactive television in Japan and offers striking new insights into media in the early twenty-first century. This wonderful book speaks to experts and newcomers alike-a real gem!" - Ian Condry, author of (The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story)