A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Producers, Publics, and Podcasts: Where Does Television Happen?
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
An investigation of the tangled creative relationship between fans and the television industry in the age of the internet.
Speculation with Spoilers
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
It is now possible to discover upcoming plot twists in your favorite television series with a little internet research. How does the proliferation of “spoilers” in online fan communities change the way we understand television spectatorship?
Editorial: Why The Amazing Race: Family Edition Doesn’t Suck
by: Joanna Slimmer / FLOW Staff
Formal innovations and family drama…Who cares where they go next?
I WANT MY GEEK TV!
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
Martha Stewart: Free but Still in Chains?
by: Melissa Click / University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Can Martha Stewart redeem herself through television?
Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
I’m coming out … and I’m doing it on FLOW. I suppose that, in some ways, I’ve always known that I was a bit “different.”
At Last, TV for People Just Like Me
by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
I hate your favorite television show. Honestly. I loathe it. You love it, I know. But it’s a stinking pile of shit.
Women Watching Sports
by: Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
I knew something had changed when I called my then-mid-70-year-old mom in Omaha several years ago on a Saturday afternoon before Christmas to ask her about clothing sizes for gifts and she responded: “I can’t talk now. Texas is beating Nebraska for the Big XII Championship.”
The Audience Factor
by: Melissa Crawley / Lingnan University, Hong Kong
On The O’Reilly Factor on The Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly introduces topics highlighted by recent news stories and spars with guests who represent each side of the issue.
Small Pleasures
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Can you love and hate a television show at one and the same time?