A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Copps’s Hypothesis: Indecency and Media Ownership
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming?
Symbolic Inversion: Git-R-Done!
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?
Meaningful Mysteries – Psychoanalytic Pleasures in Today’s TV
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
A consideration of the pleasure of unraveling contemporary television’s “meaningful mysteries.”
Notes from the Blogosphere
by: Rachel Weiss
Blogs are the new reality television.
This Week on Flow
by: Chris Lucas and Avi Santo / Coordinating Editors
Welcome to the first issue of Flow Volume 2.
Pass the Remote!
by: Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek
HBO’s Carnivale and the valorization of freak culture.
Television For Swing States
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How television can help to create common ground among citizens.
Hegemony on a Hard Drive
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Improving the relationship between the creative impulse and the digital environment.
Reinventing Public Media
by: Michael Curtin / University of Wisconsin-Madison
A pragmatic approach to the possibility of media reform
The Republic of Tyra
by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Who would you rather run the country — Tyra or Simon?
Where’s the Beef?
by: Daniel Bernardi / Arizona State University
A look at pornography, hate speech, Donna Haraway’s cyborg metaphor, and their relationship to race in America.
Terrordome
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the dynamics of cable cop shows The Shield and Kojak.