Dr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.
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Francesca Sobande explores emo’s nostalgic resurgence, raising questions about authenticity, youth culture, mythologization, and the role of industrial and commercial activities in shaping the genre.
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Tim Highfield explores BeReal through the platform and users’ relationship to temporal authenticity.
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Helen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of “post-death experience.”
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Catherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
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Rukmini Pande traces how mainstream narratives of fandom history and fandom spaces have been characterized by white-centricity, racism, and anti-Blackness.
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Philip Scepanski describes the effects of television’s engagement with 9/11 on our emotional responses to national trauma.
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Kathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
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Laurel P. Rogers analyzes how the Duffer Brothers’ self-branding as affirmational “fanboy auteurs” affords them power and legitimacy even as, she argues, they engage in transformational practices that are more usually associated with fangirls.
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Christina N. Baker applies Audre Lorde’s musing on collective liberation to the film One Night in Miami to pose there is power in unity.
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Flow has published articles from over 700 authors in its 17-year history – from the tenured senior scholar to the graduate student junior scholar. Flow‘s authors are spread all across the Americas – from New York to California and from Canada to Brazil – and across the globe – from England and Scotland to New Zealand and Australia, to Singapore and beyond. […]
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Through the work of Judylyn Ryan and Audre Lorde, Christina N. Baker explores filmmaker Kasi Lemmons’s films, Eve’s Bayou and Harriet, through epiphany, intuition, spirituality, and the erotic.
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