A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Katrina Margolis considers the genre-bending of “Jessica Jones,” it’s blending of superhero and noir conventions, and the ways this bending of genre represents larger social and political issues for audiences.
Read moreAmanda Halprin explores the role of fansubbers as linguistic gatekeepers by examining the role of fansubbers on Viki.
Read moreOutgoing Flow editor Lesley Willard compiled and contextualized UT Austin grad student coverage of the 2018 ATX TV Festival.
Read moreMichelle Cho explores the impact of multi-platform fan engagement on television consumption through K-pop boy band BTS’s fans are expanding and redefining mediated liveness.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso explores the dewy aesthetics and commodity feminism of Glossier, a makeup, media, and lifestyle brand.
Read morePaul Reinsch discusses the intricacies of audience interaction with official—and unofficial—film soundtrack albums.
Read moreJorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard examine white-cast dystopias and people of color-cast utopias in contemporary sitcom aesthetics.
Read moreKate Edwards uses a geopolitical issue to consider the many “unknown risks” of generating media content within the modern context of global business, product creation, and community interaction across boundaries.
Read moreIn this article, Jeremy Wade Morris writes about the importance of archiving audio on the Internet and the absences in current web archives.
Read moreLooking at the most recent issues of the “New Super-Man” comic series, Woo analyzes and codes the paratextual promotional material to assess the relative value of fans to the comics industry.
Read moreDr. Adrienne Massanari discusses how the “alt-right” deploy the term “Social Justice Warrior” and what it has come to mean and represent in online discourses.
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the aesthetic fetishism of subway design risks distorting the materiality of and politics of transportation and communication infrastructure.
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