This issue on Flow (10 June 2005)
by: Susan R. Pearlman / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 6.
Category: 2.06
Evaluation, Analysis, Reform, and the Peabody Awards
by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
On the purpose of media studies and the many guises of reform.
Pass the Remote: Online News
by: Elliot Panek, Kristen Grant and Elaine Baumgartel
Considering the internet as a primary news source.
Four Strategies for Media Reform
by: Michael Curtin / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Four concrete suggestions for reforming media.
Why Fiske Still Matters
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Despite Aniko Bodroghkozy’s claim that McChesney “rules”, Fiske still matters.
Embodied
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the various uses of mediums in the new Patricia Arquette series Medium.
Benny Hill and Reviving British Comedy
by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Why the recent interest in British comedy? McCarthy examines the BBC’s Benny Hill Show marathon, Little Britain, and The Office.
Digital: The Dark Side
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
How digital creative tools blur the lines between fantasy and reality, creation and cutting-and-pasting, and why that might not be such a good thing.
Legal Fictions
by: Eric M. Greenfield
What the law has to say about the distortion of character that is a staple of fact-based entertainment.