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Flow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
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By raising the specter of “dead white men” theorists and their applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.

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The Girl from Pawnee
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

April 3, 2009 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 6 comments

90s comedy and the contemporary inversion.

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Will Hallucinate for Licensed Product
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January 22, 2009 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 8 comments

Industry Heroes: model consumers working tirelessly within their corporately sanctioned power to advance the brand

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A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

October 31, 2008 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University 12 comments

What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?

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Over*Flow: “Effort is Overrated: The Dissonance of AI Integrations with the 2024 Olympics”
Kathryn Hartzell / University of Texas at Austin

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Over*Flow: “Martha Stewart’s Star Persona and the 21st-Century Influencer”
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30 Jan

New Over*Flow! Kathryn Hartzell examines AI Olympic Ads from Summer '24, identifying a dissonance in the ads' narratives that highlight tensions around AI's relationship to creativity, concerns over increased precarity in media industries & more. Read at http://tinyurl.com/mr2rzzeh

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28 Dec

Michael Z. Newman explores the convergence of TV & TikTok, arguing that the platform embodies television’s fragmentary logic & attention-driven economy, transforming late night shows like After Midnight into viral, internet-native content.

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26 Dec

Andrew Stubbs-Lacy's column examines Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer on AppleTV+, exploring how its production and promotion as a “cinematic” auteur-driven series reflect broader industry strategies. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/yc6cckya

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23 Dec

Roderik Smits explores how AI is shaping the landscape of film programming and distribution.

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