A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Special Features on Flow Needs You!
by: Jean Lauer and Special Features Editors
Do you have ideas to share with the readers of Flow? Flow’s 5th Volume is here, and we’re always looking for the next Special Feature.
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Read moreThe Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
And the winner is…
lonelygirl15: The Pleasures and Perils of Participation
by: Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
The Internet has been the site of a zillion hoaxes, so what is so special about lonelygirl15?
“Israeli Idol” Goes to War: The Globalization of Television Studies
by: Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin
Kohav Nolad, Israel’s version of “Idol,” illustrates the dialectic between local and global trends in TV as the program transforms itself in a time of war.
Seeing the Back of Berlusconi? The Current Situation of the Media in Italy
by: Hugh Kesson / Deakin University
Will Italy’s media be changed by its recent changes in leadership?
Family, Fate and the Finale of Will and Grace
by: Kathleen Battles / Denison University and Wendy Hilton-Morrow / Augustana College
On the limitations and possibilities of imagining families in a non-heteronormative way in the finale of Will & Grace.
The Curious State of Live TV
by: John Tomasic / The University of Paris-Dauphine
With new technologies providing access to “realness,” the novelty of live television may be wearing off.
Playing in the Technological Sandbox
by: Rochelle Rodrigo / Mesa Community College
On the value of “play” in the course of implementing new technologies in the classroom.
by: Melissa Crawley / Lingnan University, Hong Kong
CSI makes it look so easy.
Is It Live or Is It Real?: Live Television's Shrinking Significance in Modern Life
By: Jeffrey Johnson / Michigan State University
Are the excitement and spontaneity of live television really gone or have they just adopted a different form?
The Lure of American Idol Explained: Parasocial Relationships and Emotional Vicarious Living in Live TV
By: Carol Morgan / Wright State University
It may be “mindless” television, but the relationships formed between the home audience and the contestants of American Idol illuminate the current state of the American Dream.