A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
2006 conference organizer Avi Santo discusses the origins of Flow’s “un-conference” model, and provides his thoughts on how the conference might continue to flip conference conventions by conjoining conversation and production during roundtable sessions.
Read moreAvi Santo examines the representational and rhetorical strategies used by toy companies to produce dolls for African American girls, which emphasize self-love and a broadening of traditional beauty categories to overcome internalized racism, and compares these with the past production and marketing of Black dolls.
Avi Santo takes a closer look at a few so-called industry outsiders who are leading the charge to change girls’ play culture and guide them toward future STEM fields.
Read moreAvi Santo explores the ways in which Project MC2 attempts to sell a brand and S.T.E.M to young girls.
Read moreAvi Santo, one of the original founders of the Flow journal and Flow Conference, compares this year’s “unconference” with past incarnations.
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by: Avi Santo / Old Dominion University
What will be the legacy of the Flow Conference?