This Issue on Flow (27 May 2005)
by: David Gurney / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 5.
Category: Volume 02
Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske
by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
Why and how do you study media?
Pass the Remote: The iGeneration
by: Jessica Birthisel, Lindsay Bosch, and Beth Bonnstetter
A consideration of the Internet generation’s experience of human-to-human relations.
The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.
I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance
by: Dana Polan / New York University
Increasingly, U. S. television reveals itself to have a voracious appetite for material, and there seems to be no limits to its ability to generate new subject matter. There is no visuality or topic so eccentric that television can’t go after them.
“Can There Be Television Without Star Trek?”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Canceling shows such as Enterprise is amputating parts of our collective history with television.
Live Richly, and Prosper
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
What is Citibank selling?
Northeastern India: Satellite TV’s Forgotten Spectator
by: Kallol Bhattacherjee / Jawaharlal Nehru University
Did satellite TV help to change the identity of Northeastern India?
This Week on Flow (13 May 2005)
by: Russell Haight / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 4.
Global Television and Multiple Layers of Identity
by: Joseph D. Straubhaar / University of Texas-Austin
How do we relate to increased local, regional, national, and global television flows?
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
by: Chris Terry, Cate Racek, and Cory Maclauchlin
What’s the appeal of fishing shows?
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?