2.05 – Flow

This Issue on Flow (27 May 2005)

May 27, 2005 David M. Gurney / Northwestern One comment

by: David Gurney / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 5.

Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske

May 27, 2005 Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia 25 comments

by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
Why and how do you study media?

Pass the Remote: The iGeneration

May 27, 2005 Jessica Birthisel, Lindsay Bosch, and Beth Bonnstetter One comment

by: Jessica Birthisel, Lindsay Bosch, and Beth Bonnstetter
A consideration of the Internet generation’s experience of human-to-human relations.

The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)

May 27, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 14 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.

I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance

May 27, 2005 Dana Polan / New York University 4 comments

by: Dana Polan / New York University
Increasingly, U. S. television reveals itself to have a voracious appetite for material, and there seems to be no limits to its ability to generate new subject matter. There is no visuality or topic so eccentric that television can’t go after them.

Category: 2.05

This Issue on Flow (27 May 2005)

Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske

Pass the Remote: The iGeneration

The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)

I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance

“Can There Be Television Without Star Trek?”

Live Richly, and Prosper

Northeastern India: Satellite TV’s Forgotten Spectator