A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Getting to know you: reasons why when Kevin Martin speaks, people should listen
by: Raymond Cha / Independent Scholar
Typically, stories covering telecommunications’ complex economic and regulatory issues are fifth-page Business or Technology section news items, if they get mentioned at all. However, when Google weighs in on an issue, the news media perks up.
Flow Poll #3: Emmy Nominations — Part I
Why Political Journalists Should Get Into Top Gear
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
How the rise of car culture in Australia suggests ways to increase political literacy.
Notes from Economy Class
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
The airline seat is an often-overlooked signpost of convergence — a site of convergent media, convergent functionalities, convergent spaces, and convergent
subjects.
Inland Empire: The Cinema in Trouble?
by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University
Can the death and destruction–of the feature, of celluloid, and cinema-going–be a good thing?
No Regrets
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
The boundaries of the permissible on network TV have not expanded to match the public’s ill-mood about the war. And the latest proof of this comes in the most unexpected place of all—Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.
Watch Now: Netflix, Streaming Movies and Networked Film Publics
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayettesville State University
Computer access content results in new ways of viewing television and film.
by: Flow Staff
Let us know which series you’d revive and those that you’d cancel in our new two-part Flow Poll.
Read moreNot Yo’ Momma’s Cyborg: Transformers Meet More Than Your Eye
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Fully loaded, tricked out, ripped and raring for a fight, the movie Transformers (2007) provides an opportunity for processing human gesture across the mechanized object.
Can it be argued that those “robots in disguise” ™ are not Haraway’s cyborgs?
“I was marrying sisters … that was my choice:” Big Love, Post-Feminist Choice, Scripted Lives and Judging Women
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University
Within the context of religious fundamentalism and right wing politics, HBO’s Big Love offers up some surprising critiques of feminism and female relationships. Here, women are represented as a source of empowerment as well as a site of feminine censure and policing.
Watching Time on Television
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.
Neoliberal Parenting and Television
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The media has succeeded at channeling advertisers’ messages and at creating a world where labor is decentered, consumption is centered, and good
parenting is done with a credit card.