Category: Volume 05

by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.

by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.

by: Bernard Timberg / East Carolina University
The proposed “Citizen’s Fair Use Declaration of Rights” redefines fair use as a legal issue that has become a political issue.

by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What are the parameters of scholarship in television history and why archival research matters.

by: Ana Boa-Ventura / University of Texas-Austin
The FLOW panel on Public Sphere and the InCommunity event “flow” together to the extent that they both questioned alternative “places” for social responsibility and political involvement, at a time when “government” does not seem to offer that engagement anymore.

by: David Marc / Syracuse University
The entertainment-industrial complex that dazzled the world for a century by attracting “the undifferentiated mass audience” has since worked to disassemble its prime creation into as many differentiated segments as marketers can imagine.

by: Louisa Stein and Kristina Busse
Two Responses to the “Watching Television Off-Television” Roundtable.

by: Leigh H. Edwards / Florida State University
Cautionary comments about the place of taste in television studies.