Category: Lead Story
The Play Paradigm: What Media Studies Can Learn from Game Studies
Narrative Pleasures in House Hunters
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
Uses the theory of Ricoeur to analyze HGTV’s House Hunters
Read moreSarah Palin and the Media
Back to the Future?: Television in the 1980s
Karen Lury / University of Glasgow
A consideration of the ways in which television’s evolving history is changing approaches to introductory television courses.
Read moreThe Smell of Flak in the Morning: Tropic Thunder’s Talk-Show Tour
Jennifer Fuller / University of Texas – Austin
Exploring the ways in which the cast of Tropic Thunder confronts the movie’s use of blackface.
Read moreiWant My TweenTV: iCarly, Sitcom 2.0
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
An examination of iCarly’s convergence comedy.
Read moreKeep on rockin’ in the free (virtual) worlds: Why user-generated content matters
Aaron Delwiche / Trinity University
An investigation of newer virtual spaces and the shift of creative freedom away from users and back to technologists and advertisers.
Read moreSame As It Never Was: Nostalgia and Children’s TV
Karen Lury / University of Glasgow
In recollection, children’s television emerges as somewhere between speech and writing; and there is something important about that intangibility. Read more
The Conference in Brief…
by: Flow Conference Participants
Read what folks had to say about the conference in review and on blogs.